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front moving in that would likely yield high winds.
• He said he's thankful that all of the buildings and animals on the family's land in rural Lemmon were saved.
• "I guess actually it was God's blessing the wind changed and stopped the fire from burning us out completely," Johnson told the Press. "One thing we've got in this country is the best fire department in the country."
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Officials: Grassland fire about 16 square miles
• LEMMON, S.D. (AP) -- U.S. Forest Service officials say they've mapped the perimeter of a fire on the Grand River National Grasslands in the Dakotas and their new size estimate is just over 16 square miles.
• Forest Service spokeswoman Babete Anderson says the agency is transitioning to a smaller fire organization with cooler temperatures and moisture in the forecast.
• The fire spread Wednesday after a prescribed burn southeast of Hettinger, N.D., escaped containment. It has scorched 10,800 acres of rural land between the towns of Hettinger in North Dakota and Buffalo and Lemmon in South Dakota.
• No injuries have been reported, but one farm building has been confirmed lost.
• The Forest Service says it intends to compensate landowners for damage to fences, hay bales and anything else that has been affected.
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AP News in Brief
Kerry mourns death of 25-year-old diplomat in Afghanistan -- 1st killed in job since Benghazi
• ISTANBUL (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry mourned on Sunday the first death of an American diplomat on the job since last year's Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic installation in Benghazi, Libya.
• Speaking to U.S. consulate workers on a visit to Istanbul, Kerry called the death of Anne Smedinghoff a "grim reminder" of the danger facing American foreign service workers serving overseas. The Illinois native was one of six Americans killed in an attack Saturday in Afghanistan. She was on a mission to donate books to students in the south of the country.
• "It's a grim reminder to all of us... of how important, but also how risky, carrying the future is," Kerry told employees in the Turkish commercial capital.
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