The U.S. Forest Service said it's operating in crisis mode, deploying tens of thousands of firefighters and maxing out its support system as wildfires continue to break out across the U.S. West, threatening entire towns.
After walking down a gravel road to do recon on a fire cresting into the trees, a wildland firefighter grimaces as he walks back to his crew on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, at the Bedrock Fire north of Lenore, Idaho. Lenore is about 30 miles east of Lewiston, Idaho.
The fire began a month ago and has destroyed more than 1,000 homes, businesses and other structures, much of it in the small town of Greenville in the northern Sierra Nevada.The fire had ravaged more than 800 square miles — an area larger than the city of London — and continued to threaten more than a dozen rural and forest communities.
The blaze was still burning near the tribal headquarters town of Lame Deer, where a mandatory evacuation remained in place and a second fire was threatening from the opposite direction. Gusts and low humidity were creating extremely dangerous conditions as flames devoured brush, short grass and timber, fire officials said.Hot, dry weather with strong afternoon winds also propelled several fires in Washington state, and similar weather was expected into the weekend, fire officials said.
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