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(Photo : Getty Images) The States Attains Preparedness Level 5  Wednesday morning, The Oregon National Guard was deployed to aid in the fight against the large Bootleg Fire, which was about 5% contained. The states attained the Preparedness Level 5 also known as PL5, and this implies that places could witness "complex incidents of wildland fire, which can possibly use up national wildland firefighting resources," as per guidance from the National Interagency Fire Center. Just three days after rising it to Preparedness Level 4, the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center publicized the incr...

Outlaw Fire burns 30 acres A wildfire burning 10 miles outside of Capitan, New Mexico reportedly consumed about 30 acres of wildland. The fire, dubbed the Outlaw Fire, was detected June 14 near White Oaks and 10 miles northwest of Capitan around 9 p.m. inside the Lincoln National Forest. Officials believed the fire was the result of lightning. It was detected during a flyover of the area by "an airplane known to the firefighting community as an air attack aircraft." According to the U.S. Forest Service, four wildland fire engines, one helicopter, two single-engine airtankers, and one large ai...

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Three thousand more acres of the Gila National Forest are burning as part of the Johnson Fire since Tuesday, totaling nearly 47,000 acres of land.

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