4.5K views · 51 reactions | Doug Grafe, ODF's Chief of Fire Protection, gives an update on the progress made on major fires throughout Oregon. | Oregon Department of Forestry | Facebook

HOW BAD ARE THE FOREST FIRES OUT WEST? So bad some of that smoke is now here in Tennessee and is at least possibly responsible for the current air quality alert here. Same thing for many other states in the midwest and even now out east. Again, how far away is the Bootleg Fire in Oregon? It’s 2,254 miles. But when 400,000 acres of forest burns, smoke travels. And, the Bootleg is not the only fire out west. Why the alert here? The wildfire smoke has caused a sharp increase in particulate matter,

29K views · 473 reactions | The Bootleg fire in southern Oregon, the...

We now have 12 large fires burning across Oregon and Washington, with 7 in the state of Oregon. The Cram fire in central Oregon is now the largest burning in the nation, scorching more than 95,000 acres. It is about 75 percent contained. Meanwhile on the Washington side of the Gorge, the Burdoin fire has grown to more than 10,000 acres and is 0 percent contained. Westerly wind gusts will continue to push the fire (and smoke) to the east. | FOX 12 Weather