Bly: Lower winds and better weather helping crew use bulldozers and helicopters fighting against the largest fire in the country in South Oregon, but strong winds pushed North California Wildfire to Nevada on Thursday, encouraging burning evacuation in the West.
The Bootleg Oregon fire grew to 624 square miles (1,616 square kilometers) _ more than half the size of Rhode Island.
However, the authorities said the higher moisture on Wednesday and last night and better conditions allowed the crew to increase the fire line.
The fire also approached the area which was burned by the previous fire on the active side of the body, raising hopes that the lack of fuel could reduce its spread, and the estimate was for a favorable fire fighting weather Thursday.
“The fire department and support personnel have made significant progress in loading this fire in the past few days, ” Joe Prummer, Commander Commander Trainee from Pacific North Inciden Management Team 2, said in a statement.” However, we still have a long way.
In front of us to ensure the security of the people around it.
“The Oregon Fire, triggered by lightning, has destroyed the southern part of the southern state which is rare and has grown up to 4 miles (6 kilometers) a day, driven by strong winds and critical dry weather.
Blaze, which is fought for more than 2,200 people, now more than a third contained.
On Thursday, the authorities said at least nine people who worked fire had tested the positive Covid-19.
The Department of Forestry Oregon said people who tested positively quarantined far from the main camps.
Also, people report symptoms and anyone who works closely with them tested and isolated until the results are returned.
This satellite image shows the bootleg fire in Oregon.
(Credit: AP) At least 2,000 houses were ordered to be evacuated at several points during the fire, and 5,000 additional houses were threatened.
At least 70 houses and more than 100 outside buildings burned, but nothing known to have died.
Meanwhile, the fire of South Tamarack Lake Tahoe has burned more than 78 square miles (202 square kilometers) and chaparratur head-high in national forest land.
It erupted July 4 and was one of the nearly two dozen blazes triggered by lightning strikes.
Windy conditions hampered more than 1,200 firefighters on Thursday against Alpine County Blaze.
It has destroyed at least 10 buildings, forced evacuation in several communities, and has closed parts of US 395 in Nevada and California.
Bill Beidler, a Woodfords, California, said: “We have suppressed fires because so many generations when we get it, this is what we get on fire.
People lose their homes and everything.” The fire lit up the new burning on Thursday afternoon Leap over the highway in the north of Lake Topaz at the California-Nevada line, encouraging evacuation orders at Topaz Lake Estates and neighboring areas.
API officials reported later on Thursday Fire which began on the east of the highway in the wind which was blowing up to 25 mph.
(40 KPH) “Growing rapidly despite the diligent efforts of firefighters to hold him back.
” “The firefighters on the ground and the plane continued to fight in a place that grew under a very difficult fuel condition,” The Humboldt.
-Trayabe Forest National said in the renewal.
It is estimated that new fire has burned almost 4 square miles (10 kilometers Square).
There are no direct reports there from every injury or structure that are destroyed D.
to the northwest, summer boating pleasure and bathing comes to the tip suddenly for tourists on Lake Almanor when The Dixie Fire spread to the west side of Sierra Nevada , developed to more than 162 square miles.
The west coast of Lake Resort and many other small communities are under the evacuation order.
Meanwhile, Oregon on Wednesday forbade all campfires in the country managed and in the Campground of the eastern state of Interstate 5, Jalan main highway which is generally considered a separator line between the western part of the state and half east.
Very dry conditions and heat waves Recently related to climate change has made forest fires more difficult to fight for.
Climate change has made the Westerners warmer and more dried in the last 30 years and will continue to make the weather more extreme and forest fires more often and damage.
Western Wildfires grow, but the weather is better to help the crew
