You should be aware of the danger that exists in the area, monitor emergency services websites and local media outlets for information. Level 1: BE READY for potential evacuation.
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Please consider signing up for Marion Polk Alerts, our free countywide mass notification system. At this time we recommend being ready and watching for updates from local news and other sources. Drug, Alcohol, Problem Gambling, and Suicide PreventionĬurrently there are no active wildfires in Polk County that have resulted in evacuations.The date has been set for later in the year because officials are expecting "a great deal of mop-up, repair and recovery to complete" once the fire has been fully contained, with the initial containment still far off. That compares to 29,207 fires and 1,761,531 acres for this period in 2020, and 23,669 fires and 2,385,283 acres in 2019.Įarlier in the week, Fire spokesperson Katy O'Hara warned CNN that the officials are far off from containing the fire, explaining that "the scope and scale of the Bootleg Fire will require a season-ending weather event such as a significant storm that is either widespread wetting rain or snow, which in southern Oregon typically occurs in the late fall."Ī public information officer for Northwest Incident Management Team 10 told Newsweek last week that the estimated containment date for the Bootleg Fire has been set for November. The country recorded 35,319 fires with 2,585,492 acres affected from January 1 to July 20, 2021, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. National Interagency Fire CenterĪcross the U.S., more acres have burned this year compared to this point in 20.
There are currently 83 large wildfires currently burning in the U.S., after a heatwave and drought caused blazes to start across the West Coast in early July, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.Ī map showing the wildfires currently burning in Oregon provided by the National Interagency Fire Center. Hessel explained that many of the residents in those rural towns have lived in the communities for their entire lives so do not want to leave, but said the state has not yet faced "million-acre fires," which Bootleg has the potential to become. The Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday evening that the fire, the fourth biggest in Oregon's history, is closing in on the rural communities of Paisley, Summer Lake and Silver Lake, as Incident Commander Joe Hessel told the newspaper that some residents in those areas are refusing to evacuate. The fire has so far burned more than 606 square miles, which is just around 3 square miles smaller than the city of London in England and bigger than both Houston in Texas and Delhi in India. The fire is expected to pass 400,000 acres burned on Wednesday. A map showing the size of the Bootleg Fire in Oregon provided by Google Maps.
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