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July 28, 2021 6:00 PM
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WELLPINIT, Wash. Wildfires continue to ravage our region, and with another heat wave moving in, there’s a lot to be concerned about across the Inland Northwest.
Tribal reservations have been hit especially hard. With limited resources, staying on top of the fires is difficult. The Sherwood Fire has already burned over 1,100 acres and still burns today. It’s just one of the fires contributing to one of the most destructive wildfire seasons in Washington.
“We are at a crisis right now, and the end of July isn’t even here,” said Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz.
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More than 300,000 acres are burning across six states across the western United States on Sunday as the region battled yet another brutal heat wave that shattered records and strained power grids.
The largest, the so-called Bootleg Fire, burned across 143,607 acres in Oregon and was 0% contained. Officials in neighboring state California asked all residents to reduce power consumption quickly after the fire knocked out interstate power lines, preventing up to 4,000 megawatts of electricity from flowing into the state.
“The Bootleg Fire will see the potential for extreme growth today,” the National Weather Service in Medford, Oregon, said on Twitter, fueled by extreme drought and temperatures near 100 that aren t expected to subside until midweek.