who face an enormous ordeal. with a long, hot summer still ahead, these fires will challenge much of the western united states for many weeks to come. peter bowes, bbc news, los angeles. firefighters are having to battle scores of wildfires across the united states as you can see. the dry weather is making matters worse. the west side of the country is particularly affected. in the state of oregon, the so called bootleg fire is the country s largest. stefan myers is with the bootleg fire information team for the oregon state fire marshal. he is at the incident command post in lakeview oregon. thank you for coming onto the programme. can you bring us up to date with the latest on the ground? we up-to-date with the latest on the ground? the ground? we now stand at 4001. .. 4100 the ground? we now stand at 4001. 4100 acres. - the ground? we now stand at 4001. 4100 acres. weather| the ground? we now stand at - 4001. .. 4100 acres. weather has 4001. 4100 acres. weather has been somewhat
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but the phenomenon, known as smoke shading, is unpredictable and there are fears that high temperatures and wind gusts later in the weekend could fan the flames further. efforts to bring this fire under control have been further complicated by an outbreak of covid 19 among firefighters. those who ve tested positive are isolating and are said to be exhibiting mild symptoms. with a long, hot summer still ahead, these fires will challenge much of the western united states for many weeks to come. peter bowes, bbc news, los angeles. earlier, stefan myers ,who is with the bootleg fire information team for the oregon state fire marshal, gave us an update from the incident command post in lakeview oregon. yeah, so we now stand at 4,001 acres or 401,000 acres. we re at 42% containment. weather has been somewhat favourable, the last couple of days to make great progress, but it is heating up this weekend and we do have concern
exhibiting mild symptoms. with a long, hot summer still ahead, these fires will challenge much of the western united states for many weeks to come. peter bowes, bbc news, los angeles. earlier, stefan myers, who is with the bootleg fire information team for the oregon state fire marshal, gave us an update from the incident command post in lakeview oregon. yeah, so we now stand at 4,001 acres or 401,000 acres. we re at 42% containment. weather has been somewhat favourable, the last couple of days to make great progress, but it is heating up this weekend and we do have concern for nearby communities. we have 1,200 firefighters that are assigned to this and all of them are staying vigilant, as this has still been a really dry summer. we had drought conditions in this part of the state. so we still have a lot of dry fuels out there