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Western Wildfires Still Growing, But Better Weather Helps Crews Make Progress Fire officials warned they still had a long way to go before knocking down the blazes burning the American West By Nathan Howard • NBCUniversal Media, LLC Lower winds and better weather helped crews using bulldozers and helicopters battling the nation’s largest wildfire in southern Oregon while a Northern California wildfire crossed into Nevada, prompting evacuations as blazes burn across the West. Oregon’s Bootleg Fire grew to 624 square miles — over half the size of Rhode Island. However...

  BLY, ORE. -- Lower winds and better weather helped crews using bulldozers and helicopters battling the nation's largest wildfire in southern Oregon, but gusty winds pushed a Northern California wildfire into Nevada on Thursday, prompting evacuations as blazes burn across the West. Oregon's Bootleg Fire grew to 624 square miles (1,616 square kilometers) -- over half the size of Rhode Island. However, authorities said higher humidity Wednesday and overnight and better conditions allowed crews to improve fire lines. The fire also was approaching an area burned by a previous fire on its act...

BLY — Lower winds and better weather helped crews using bulldozers and helicopters battling the nation’s largest wildfire in Klamath and Lake counties while a Northern California wildfire crossed into Nevada, prompting new evacuations as blazes burn across the West. The Bootleg Fire had grown to nearly 400,000 acres, with 38% containment as of Thursday, according to InciWeb. However, authorities said higher humidity Wednesday and overnight and better conditions allowed crews to improve fire lines. The fire also was approaching an area burned by a previous fire on its active south...

Nathan Howard Originally published on July 22, 2021 5:44 pm As the nation’s largest wildfire neared 400,000 acres burned on Thursday, nine firefighters assigned to the blaze tested positive for COVID-19. That’s prompted state health officials to work with incident management teams to set up quarantine areas away from fire camps, though officials also noted that they had already taken steps to minimize transmission risk after developing pandemic response plans during last year’s wildfire season. “This fire season has been slightly different due to the broad availability of vaccines...

Print AP In this photo provided by the Bootleg Fire Incident Command, a tanker drops retardant over the Mitchell Monument area at the Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon on Saturday, July 17, 2021. The 569-square-mile (1,474 square kilometers) Bootleg Fire is burning 300 miles (483 kilometers) southeast of Portland in and around the Fremont-Winema National Forest, a vast expanse of old-growth forest, lakes and wildlife refuges. (Bootleg Fire Incident Command via AP) Credit: The Associated Press ...