Oregon has 10 fires burning and season is far from over A new wildfire has forced the evacuation of 275 homes in Rowena, Oregon, a town in the Columbia River Gorge, according to The Associated Press.
On Saturday, California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. proclaimed a State of Emergency and called for the mobilization of the National Guard to the northern area of the state as wildfires continue to ravage the region.
Two wildfires have been contained to some degree among the many wildfires burning in Cali. Crews have succeeded in making progress on two of the largest wildfires in California.
The four wildfires sparked at the beginning of this week in Washington have converged into what is being called the Carlton Complex fires and the massive blaze continues to expand, destroying hundreds of thousands of acres of land, burning down homes, causing widespread evacuations, and more.
A wildfire is blazing out of control near Warm Springs, Ore., having burned up approximately 40 square miles of land in the five days since it was sparked. Firefighters are making very little headway in their efforts to battle the blaze and officials warn that they expect the fire to continue to grow significantly before any real progress in containment is made.
A wildfire that sparked 10 days ago on July 17 in the Coronado National Forest in Arizona has destroyed approximately 8,200 acres of land and has forced into place an official closure of the area surrounding the fire for safety purposes, according to officials.
As of Tuesday evening the Funny River fire, located within the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska has burned through almost 200,000 acres of land since it was ignited well over two weeks ago and fire officials are still having a hard time containing the blaze.
A wildfire that sparked near the heart of Arizona, just south of Flagstaff and north of Prescott, has been burning for nine days straight as of Thursday and has engulfed more than 21,000 acres of land. Evacuations and fire restrictions are currently in place as hundreds of firefighters continue to battle this blaze at a multi-million dollar cost to the state.
The Slide Fire Wildfire is still burning in Oak Creek Canyon, north of Sedona, Ariz., after first being reported on Tuesday May 20. Evacuations and road closures remain in place as firefighters battle the monstrous blaze.
Wildfire season is upon the United States as we roll into Spring and weather experts warn that this week especially will create conditions conducive to a high wildfire danger in certain parts of the country.
Fire officials in Logan County, Oklahoma and the surrounding areas are scrambling for safety after a controlled burn sparked on Sunday by authorities exploded in size from a few hundred acres on Sunday afternoon up to near 4,000 acres within just a few short hours.
Fire officials in southern California announced that as of Thursday evening the Etiwanda wildfire burning outside of Los Angeles had grown to over 1600 acres and was just over 50 percent contained.
As the last evacuation orders are lifted for the communities threatened by the Colby Fire in Southern California, the three men allegedly responsible for sparking the inferno remain in jail. Each is being held on half a million dollars bond, while they await a decision as to whether they will face federal charges for their actions.
