Wildfire

Crews made progress on the Burdoin Fire near Lyle, Washington, over the weekend. But they warned of new fire threats for the region in the coming days.

Lawmakers will reconvene in August to try and pass a bill to revamp Oregon’s transportation system. As wildfires sweep the state, the stakes are particularly high.

As of Sunday, the blaze was 39% contained.

Crews are preparing for a wind event with 35 mph gusts that could make firefighting efforts challenging on the Burdoin Fire.

The Brewer Road Fire is burning in Klickitat County, Washington, just north of the 11,000-acre Burdoin Fire.

A wildfire burning in a sparsely populated region of central Oregon has become the largest fire burning in the U.S. this year and is on the verge of surpassing 100,000 acres to become what’s officially known as a megafire.

All state-run recreation sites in Oregon’s Santiam Canyon are officially open, five years after wildfires burned through much of the area east of Salem.

As fires rage across the country, federal wildfire officials recently raised the national Preparedness Level to 4. If things get more intense, that could mean calling on the military and other countries for help.

The Burdoin Fire burning along the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge grew overnight to nearly 11,000 acres — enlisting 850 personnel to fight the flames.

We hear from the Oregon State Fire Marshal and the deputy director of fire operations at the Oregon Department of Forestry about the resources being mobilized to fight the wildfires burning across the state.