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• Oregon wildfire forms 'fire clouds' that pose danger below Smoke and heat from a massive wildfire in southeastern Oregon are creating giant “fire clouds” over the blaze — dangerous columns of smoke and ash that can reach up to 6 miles (10 kilometers) in the sky and are visible from more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) away. Authorities have put these clouds at the top of the list of the extreme fire behavior they are seeing on the Bootleg Fire, the largest wildfire burning in the U.S. The inferno…
• Unstable weather will continue to fuel huge Oregon blaze Dry, unstable and windy conditions will keep fueling a massive wildfire in southern Oregon, forecasters said, as the largely uncontained blaze grows by miles each day. The Bootleg Fire was just one of numerous wildfires burning across the U.S. West. Crews had to flee the fire lines of the Oregon blaze late Thursday after a dangerous “fire cloud” started to collapse, threatening them with strong downdrafts and flying embers. An initial review Friday showed the Bootleg Fire destroyed 67 homes…
• Unstable weather will continue to fuel huge Oregon blaze By Gillian Flaccus | Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Dry, unstable and windy conditions will keep fueling a massive wildfire in southern Oregon, forecasters said, as the largely uncontained blaze grows by miles each day. The Bootleg Fire was just one of numerous wildfires burning across the U.S. West. Crews had to flee the fire lines of the Oregon blaze late Thursday after a dangerous “fire cloud” started to collapse, threatening them with strong downdrafts and flying embers. An initial…
• Unstable weather will continue to fuel huge Oregon blaze By Gillian Flaccus | Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Dry, unstable and windy conditions will keep fueling a massive wildfire in southern Oregon, forecasters said, as the largely uncontained blaze grows by miles each day. The Bootleg Fire was just one of numerous wildfires burning across the U.S. West. Crews had to flee the fire lines of the Oregon blaze late Thursday after a dangerous “fire cloud” started to collapse, threatening them with strong downdrafts and flying embers. An initial…
• California blaze erupts near site of deadliest US wildfire A blaze that erupted near the flashpoint of the deadliest wildfire in recent U.S. history was heading away from homes on Thursday but survivors of the 2018 blaze worried that history could repeat itself. The Dixie Fire had burned a couple of square miles of brush and timber near the Feather River Canyon area of Butte County and moved into national forest land in neighboring Plumas County. There was zero containment and officials said people in the tiny, remote communities…
• Huge Oregon blaze grows as wildfires burn across western US The largest wildfire in the U.S. torched more dry forest landscape in Oregon on Sunday, one of dozens of major blazes burning across the West as critically dangerous fire weather loomed in the coming days. The destructive Bootleg Fire just north of the California border grew to more than 476 square miles (1,210 square kilometers), an area about the size of Los Angeles. Erratic winds fed the blaze, creating dangerous conditions for firefighters, said Sarah Gracey, a spokeswoman for the…
• The Bootleg Fire in Oregon is so large, it’s creating its own weather By Joe Sutton, Michael Guy and Hollie Silverman | CNN As hot, dry weather conditions continue to fuel wildfires across much of the United States, the Bootleg Fire in Oregon has become so intense that it is creating its own weather. The Bootleg Fire has scorched 537 square miles — an area larger than Los Angeles and about half the size of Rhode Island. It grew to nearly 364,113 acres Monday and is 30% contained, Oregon Department of Forestry spokesperson…
• Would-be burglar shot by Santa Clara resident SANTA CLARA – A Santa Clara resident shot a would-be burglar last weekend, police said. Around 1:50 a.m. on July 11, officers were called to the 1000 block of Santa Clara Street for a report of a prowler in the backyard of a home, the Santa Clara Police Department said in a news release Friday. On their way to the scene, they received word that shots had been fired. Authorities said an investigation revealed the occupants of the home had…
• PG&E says its equipment may be linked to Northern California Dixie Fire SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric equipment may have been involved in the start of the big Dixie Fire burning in the Sierra Nevada, the nation’s largest utility reported to California regulators. PG&E said in a report Sunday to the California Public Utilities Commission that a repair man responding to a circuit outage on July 13 spotted blown fuses in a conductor atop a pole, a tree leaning into the conductor and fire at the base of the tree.…
• Motorcycle crash shuts down all outbound lanes of Edens Expressway near Wilson A crash shut down all lanes of the Edens Expressway near Wilson Avenue July 19, 2021. Drivers have been forced off the expressway at the Wilson exit. All lanes of the outbound Edens Expressway have been shut down near Wilson Avenue following a motorcycle crash Monday morning on the North Side. The crash occurred just after 5:30 a.m., according to Illinois State Police. Officials have not yet released any information on potential injuries. As of 7 a.m., all outbound lanes…