Border Patrol agents| APPORT ANGELES, Wash.—Since the August 27 Border Patrol raid on the firefighter crew battling the “Bear Gulch” forest fire, the inferno has nearly doubled to 18,500 acres, the worst forest fire in Washington State. The Border Patrol agents, based here in Port Angeles, heavily armed but without identification, arrived unannounced, halted the work of the fire crew to check their papers. Ferguson denounced the Border Patrol arrests. “On large incidents like Bear Gulch, personnel come from all over the world. Even more troublesome is that the Federal agency defending the action, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), has no jurisdiction in Bear Gulch.