'Our firefighters have put in an incredible amount of hard work on this fire,' said Joe Hessel of the Oregon Department of Forestry Incident Management Team.
The Bootleg Fire in Oregon has grown to over 400,000 acres, making it the third-largest wildfire in state history.
Officials said that the Bootleg Fire, which is in Oregon's Fremont-Winema National Forest, northeast of Klamath Falls, was caused by lightning on June 6. Since the fire was first reported, it has continued to grow, as officials said it burned approximately 153,535 acres last Monday. Earlier this week, officials said the fire grew to 394,407 acres.
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