Mild weather gives Bootleg Fire crews a breather; new tally shows 161 homes lost to blaze
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Extremely large trees weakened by fire are sometimes time consuming and complicated to fall. Falling teams come in to assist crews with such hazard trees. Only trees that threaten firefighter or public safety are removed
BLY, Ore. (AP) Authorities are hopeful that cool temperatures, increased humidity and isolated showers will help them make more progress against the nation’s largest wildfire, the Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon, but officials also have provided a new, grim tally of over 160 homes lost to the blaze.
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The Alaska Type 1 Incident Management Team, two Alaska hotshot crews and more than a dozen Alaska Smokejumpers have been mobilized to the Lower 48 to assist with wildland fire management in the western United States.
The Alaska IMT, which consists of approximately 70 highly trained wildland firefighting personnel from multiple Alaska state and federal agencies, flew out on a chartered jet from the National Interagency Coordination Center (NICC) on Tuesday. The Team will be prepositioned in Boise, Idaho, home to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), to await an assignment.
Members of the Pioneer Peak Interagency Hotshot Crew board a jet from the National Interagency Coordination Center at Ted Stevens International Airport on Tuesday, July 20, 2021 for the flight to Boise, Idaho. Kale Casey/Alaska Incident Management Team