Wildfires in the west hitting tribes hard 'The size and number of the wildfires threaten to exhaust firefighting resources' Author: A scoop plane drops water onto a burning ridge in Washington state where a fire line had been created by crews of wildland firefighters, Monday, July 12, 2021 at the Lick Creek Fire, south of Asotin, Wash. (Pete Caster/Lewiston Tribune via AP) 'The size and number of the wildfires threaten to exhaust firefighting resources' Joaqlin Estus In Oregon, Karuk tribal citizen Troy Hockaday Sr. watched helplessly last fall as a raging wildfire leveled the homes of five of his family members, swallowed acres of forest where his people hunt deer, elk and black bear, and killed a longtime friend.