Important Takeaways:

• The largest active wildfire in the United States has scorched almost 270,000 acres in eastern Oregon, as nearly 80 large active wildfires are burning in the US, including a California blaze that exploded in size overnight.
• California wildfire explodes in size overnight
  • The Park Fire grew nearly 40,000 acres overnight to an area roughly the size of Washington, DC.
  • The fire has burned an average of nearly 50 football fields per minute since it started Wednesday afternoon.
  • Triple-digit temperatures and high wind gusts have fueled the fire’s growth.
• Oregon fires ‘scaled up quickly’
  • The lightning-sparked Durkee Fire is the largest of 31 large wildfires currently burning across Oregon, which has been the hardest hit by fires in recent days.
  • “We have been at this for a number of days, and those days just seem to keep getting harder and harder with the weather that we’re seeing in our area and the intense fire behavior,” Sarah Sherman of the Bureau of Land Management said in a video update.

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