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Smoke from the Western wildfires is so widespread, it reached New York City
Hollie Silverman, Michael Guy and Joe Sutton, CNN
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Smoke seen from the rooftop of the American Cooper Building at 1st Avenue in New York City. | Melvin Rodriguez
(CNN) Extreme heat and dry conditions are fueling raging wildfires in the western US, charring more than a million acres, requiring evacuations and creating smoky conditions visible from space.
Smoke stretched early Wednesday all the way to the East Coast, including New York City, because high-level winds carried them thousands of miles from the West.
The smoke mixed down to the surface in New York City, creating an eerie scene Wednesday morning though a cold front is expected to usher the smoke out of the area later in the day.
Huge and intense Oregon wildfire creating its own weather
Oregon s Bootleg Fire is so intense it s now creating its own weather. CNN s Dan Simon has more.
Posted: Jul 20, 2021 4:20 PM
Posted By: CNN
As hot, dry weather conditions continue to fuel wildfires across much of the United States, the Bootleg Fire in Oregon has become so intense that it s creating its own weather.
The fire has scorched more than 606 square miles an area larger than Los Angeles and about half the size of Rhode Island. It grew to more than 388,350 acres overnight from Monday to Tuesday and is 30% contained, according to data from the InciWeb interagency website.
As hot, dry weather conditions continue to fuel wildfires across much of the United States, the Bootleg Fire in Oregon has become so intense that it s creating its own weather. The fire has scorched more than 606 square miles an area larger than Los Angeles and about half the size of Rhode Island. It grew to more than 388,350 acres overnight from Monday to Tuesday and is 30% contained, according to data from the InciWeb interagency website. It s one of at least eight large fires burning in Oregon and one of at least 83 burning across 13 states, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. The climate crisis has made deadlier and more destructive wildfires the new normal.
July 20 2021
Governor, officials push for more preparedness as huge fires burn hundreds of acres, COVID variant looms.
Oregon is experiencing August-like fire danger conditions in mid-July, creating the likelihood of a historic fire season for the second year in a row.
Nearly 500,000 acres have burned from nearly 1,000 fires this year, said Doug Grafe, chief of fire protection for the Oregon Department of Forestry during a Tuesday, July 20, press call on current fire conditions.
Most fires are caught at under 10 acres, but each has the potential to become a major blaze, fire officials said.
Gov. Kate Brown and state fire response officials warned that conditions were extreme for fire danger that would last for at least three more months. Oregon residents in nearly every point in the state needed to prepare now for how to handle a wildfire emergency, they said.