firefighters are beginning to lose the battle. reporter: after year. the air attack has been a major asset all day long. reporter: after year. the winds fanning these flames are expected to last another 24 hours reporter: in 2021, oregon s bootleg fire tore through the jacobs family property. the fires have got unreal big from what they was back in the past when it s burning, can anything slow it down no. reporter: the fifth-generation loggers and ranchers lost 300 acres now the federal government is trying to help families like theirs, urging them to thin their own forests before fire season begins, or to initiate prescribed burns, controlled fires like this one, so there s less wood to fuel the flames when fire season starts. but conducting these burns isn t cheap or easy who pays for that that s the thing