'Weather is really against us.' The largest wildfire in the U.S. torched more dry forest landscape in Oregon, one of dozens of major blazes burning across the West as critically dangerous fire weather looms in the coming days.
The destructive Bootleg Fire just north of the California border grew to more than 476 square miles , an area about the size of Los Angeles.
At the other end of the state, a fire in the mountains of northeast Oregon grew to more than 17 square miles by Sunday. In California, a growing wildfire south of Lake Tahoe jumped a highway, prompting more evacuation orders, the closure of the Pacific Crest Trail and the cancellation of an extreme bike ride through the Sierra Nevada.
“It happened so fast,” Pennington said. “We left our tents, hammock and some foods, but we got most of our things, shoved our two kids in the car and left.”
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