How an Oregon Blaze Became the Nation's Largest Fire
How an Oregon Blaze Became the Nation's Largest Fire Sergio Olmos, Henry Fountain and Simon Romero © USDA Forest Service , via Getty Images The fire burning in Bly last week, in a photo from the U.S. Forest Service. BLY, Ore. — Smoke smeared the sky gray. A tractor-style logging machine sat abandoned and charred in a field. Hundreds of firefighters raced across miles and miles of forest land, often outnumbering the populations of the small towns that speckle southern Oregon. A lightning strike on a brittle-dry Oregon mountain slope set off a blaze that has grown larger th...