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Oregon wildfires: New La Pine fire brings evacuations, Bootleg Fire roars past 200,000 acres Zach Urness, Virginia Barreda, David Davis and Wesley Lapointe, Salem Statesman Journal © U.S. Forest Service Smoke rises over the Bruler Fire. The wildfire is currently burning south of Detroit Lake. Multiple wildfires are burning across Oregon, particularly in the southern and central part of the state.  © U.S. Forest Service The Bootleg Fire is burning in the Fremont-Winema Nat...

Crews make significant progress fighting Jack Fire The fire is threatening the Dry Creek area east of Glide. Posted: Jul 12, 2021 6:09 PM Updated: Jul 12, 2021 7:46 PM Posted By: KEZI Staff 6 Images DRY CREEK, Ore. -- The Jack Fire has grown to nearly 12,500 acres on Monday and is still 10% contained. Officials said they made significant progress over the weekend and feel confident about securing the area. MORE INFO “Firefighters have been doing a great job particularly in areas up north o...

Five major fires are burning in Oregon, including the largest fire in the United States, in Klamath County. The Bootleg Fire was at more than 201,000 acres in size Tuesday. It’s burning actively on the Fremont-Winema National Forest, about 11 miles north of the town of Sprague River. Night operations on the Grandview Fire north of Sisters on July 11, 2021. Credit Inciweb A fire northeast of Sisters has grown to about 5,700 acres and was 5% contained as of Tuesday morning. The Grandview Fire s...

July 12 2021 More than 800 people sought help from heat-related medical issues; heat wave added to 18 months of catastrophes. Extreme weather like the deadly heat wave that hit Oregon at the end of June are a sign of things to come, state officials said Monday, July 12. The National Weather Service has reported temperatures in the last week of June obliterated all-time heat records: 101 in Astoria, 109 in Bend, 112 in Redmond, 116 in Portland, 117 in Salem and 118 in Hermiston. Other citie...

Oregon wildfires: New fire ignited near Detroit Lake, Grandview Fire roars to 4,000 acres near Sisters Zach Urness and Virginia Barreda, Salem Statesman Journal © Central Oregon Fire Information The Grandview Fire burning north of Sisters grew to 2,000 acres on Monday. Multiple wildfires are burning across Oregon, particularly in the southern and central part of the state.  Bruler Fire ignites south of Detroit Lake, estimated at 15-20 acres Updated at 5 p.m. on Monday, July...

July 12 2021 More than 800 people sought help from heat-related medical issues; heat wave added to 18 months of catastrophes. Extreme weather like the deadly heat wave that hit Oregon at the end of June are a sign of things to come, state officials said Monday, July 12. The National Weather Service has reported temperatures in the last week of June obliterated all-time heat records: 101 in Astoria, 109 in Bend, 112 in Redmond, 116 in Portland, 117 in Salem and 118 in Hermiston. Other citie...

Burnout operations on the Jack Fire near Dry Creek.  Photo from 7/9/2021 Credit Jack Fire The fire is estimated to be 4,000 acres in size and is located near Culver, where there are Level 3 evacuations in place. The fire northeast of Sisters is also threatening structures in Jefferson and Deschutes Counties. The Office of the State Fire Marshal Red Incident Management Team will assume unified command with the Oregon Department of Forestry, and will work to bring resources from counties around ...

Crews make significant progress fighting Jack Fire The fire is threatening the Dry Creek area east of Glide. Posted: Jul 12, 2021 6:09 PM Updated: Jul 12, 2021 7:46 PM Posted By: KEZI Staff 6 Images DRY CREEK, Ore. -- The Jack Fire has grown to nearly 12,500 acres on Monday and is still 10% contained. Officials said they made significant progress over the weekend and feel confident about securing the area. MORE INFO “Firefighters have been doing a great job particularly in areas up north o...

Over 50 large fires are burning in 10 states across the western US. Heres how they stack in history. Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT Fifty-two large fires are currently burning 748,987 acres in the western United States, with many showing very little sign of containment.  The number of fires that have burned nationally by this time of year is the largest in a decade, with over 33,000 fires scorching upwards of 1.9 million acres by July 12, according to the N...

Jason Pettigrew Originally published on July 12, 2021 3:47 pm Eight large fires are burning across Oregon and Washington, prompting evacuations in Southern and Central Oregon, and blanketing much of the southeastern corner of the state in smoke. In Oregon, the Jack Fire east of Glide had grown to more than 10,000 acres and was 10% contained as of midday Monday. The Grandview Fire north of Sisters, which sparked Sunday, quickly grew to 4,000 acres, with zero containment. Evacuations are in p...