Rain in western Montana Monday did little to slow fire growth across the state. "Well it’s a mixed blessing," said Jay Nichols, a spokesperson assigned to the Monument and Wigwam Fires burning south of Ennis. "So obviously wind isn’t a good thing, rain’s a good thing, but I don’t know that it will be a substantial amount of rain." Nichols says together the fires are burning more than 10,000 acres. An evacuation notice for the Haypress Lakes area in the Shining Mountains Subdivision was reduced