Oregon’s Bootleg Fire is torching an area larger than NYC. Firefighters are scrambling to contain it.
Whereas the fireplace’s trigger stays beneath investigation, since igniting July 6, flames have moved one to a few miles per day — fueled by dry timber and fanned out by the afternoon’s 15 to twenty miles per hour winds, Ryan Berlin, a Bootleg Hearth Zone 1 data officer, stated.
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