![]() ![]() ![]() Residents can look up and see the fires' impacts as the pattern continues, Hoover said, and might even see some prettier sunsets. Indianapolis residents woke up Tuesday to a red morning sun and hazier skies because of the smoke in the upper atmosphere. "We've got an area of high pressure sitting over the Rockies and it's pretty large," Kacie Hoover, a NWS meteorologist, told the Indianapolis Star. "So it's just the way the airflow is going from the Pacific Northwest into Western Canada and then all of that air is being brought down into the Midwest, which is why we're seeing the smoke above us." Smoke from wildfires has resulted in air quality issues as far east as portions of the Upper Midwest and even the Northeast, the National Weather Service said. The fire's edge is a few miles from the town of Paradise, California, which burned almost to the ground three years ago in a wildfire that k4illed 85 people. Monday, the fire generated a thunderstorm over itself, hurling lightning bolts and whipping up gusty winds. The fire, which is only 15% contained, expanded in size overnight, and it's still moving to the north and east. On Tuesday, officials temporarily closed all recreational and public access to state-managed lands in eastern Washington due to fire danger, starting Friday.įurther south, in north-central California, the 95-square-mile Dixie Fire burned on Tuesday, threatening more than 800 homes and other structures, Cal Fire said. Sixteen large, uncontained fires burned in Oregon and Washington state alone. At least 70 homes and more than 100 outbuildings have gone up in flames. The worry is dry conditions, a drought and the recent record-breaking heat wave in the region have created tinderbox conditions, so resources such as fire engines are being recruited from places including Arkansas, Nevada and Alaska.Īt least 2,000 homes have been evacuated at some point during the fire and another 5,000 are threatened. Fortunately, the fire is located in a remote area away from population masses. The Bootleg Fire, now some 606 square miles in size, is burning 300 miles southeast of Portland in and around the Fremont-Winema National Forest, a vast expanse of old-growth forest, lakes and wildlife refuges. In all, some 83 large wildfires are burning across 13 states, most of them in the western U.S.Ī massive wildfire in Oregon that's grown to about half the size of Rhode Island has prompted fire officials to call for help from outside the Pacific Northwest to prepare for additional blazes across the parched state.At least 2,000 homes have been evacuated at some point during the fire and another 5,000 threatened.Dry conditions, a drought and the recent record-breaking heat wave in the region have created tinderbox conditions. ![]()
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