Overview
- The wildfire near Sisters remains 0% contained at roughly 22,000 acres, with authorities confirming four homes and about six other buildings destroyed.
- Evacuation levels 1 through 3 cover areas around the fire, with about 10,000 residents under notices; a Red Cross shelter is open at Highland Baptist Church in Redmond and large animals can be taken to the Jefferson County Fairgrounds.
- Air quality advisories cover Deschutes, Jefferson and western Crook counties, with Redmond, Bend and La Pine registering unhealthy readings for all populations.
- More than 800 firefighters are assigned after Gov. Tina Kotek invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act, and the State Fire Marshal has mobilized three structural task forces plus its Red Incident Management Team.
- In California, Napa County’s Pickett Fire has grown to over 10 square miles with 11% containment, prompting mandatory evacuations and threatening about 500 structures near Aetna Springs and Pope Valley.