The massive Bootleg wildfire in southeastern Oregon is spreading at a rate of 1,000 acres every hour with smoke and heat from the massive blaze is so intense that giant ‘fire clouds’ are being created overhead.
The Bootleg Fire is now the largest wildfire burning in the U.S. at 241,496 acres, or 377 square miles — larger than the area of New York City — with active flames surging along a front 200 miles long. The inferno is just 7% contained. Continue reading “Bootleg wildfire in Oregon is growing by 1,000 acres every HOUR and is creating dangerous ‘fire clouds’ which generate their own lightning and can dump embers on firefighters battling the nation’s biggest blaze”

