Oregon wildfire begins stabilizing as California blaze threatens vineyards | West Coast

A forest fire that destroyed the four houses in Middle Oreg began to stabilize, North California has survived some of the most famous grape vineyards of a fire in the wine country.

Authorities said that the moisture helps Oregon to fight against the flat fire, but more work should be done. Dry, hot weather, since the fire began late on Thursday, Deschutes and Jefferson districts had rapidly expanded the fire on the rugged land.

Vice President of the State Travis Medema, on Monday to a community meeting in a sister town in a community meeting, “I should love the mother of nature. A little rained. Temps cooled, relative moisture appeared,” he said. “For the first time in the last three days, the event really begins to balance.”

Authorities, firefighters, including the roads around the entire fire with some kind of protective lines, but the fire is at a limit of 5%, he said.

At one point, the authorities ordered more than 4,000 households, but on Monday, they ordered for some areas.

A heat consultancy entered into force until Wednesday, and predictions warned that potential storms could create irregular winds that would challenge firefighters.

Meanwhile, the Pickket Fire in Northern California, known for its hundreds of wine workshops about 10 km2 (26 km2 away Napa district was charred. 15 % took place on Tuesday.

Flames saved the hundred acres of wines of the hundred acres of Jayson Woodbridge’s house and adjacent vineyards, but on Thursday, when the fire broke out and competed on the nearby slopes, he said it was a close call.

He and his son took hoses and began to spray on empty slopes. “Water was evaporating as fast as we sprayed there,” Woodbridge said. “It was just a warm air funnel. Fire was just swallowing everything.”

Soon, teams with bulldozer and air support came to protect the property. The helicopters, which left water, continued their flights on Monday and held their flames to the canyons about 80 miles (130km) of San Francisco.

About a month before the harvest, Woodbridge said that the grapes would not be damaged due to the “pure chance” of the wind direction.

“The smoke does not affect the fruit because the wind comes from the west, Wood Woodbridge said, Woodbridge said. This was not the case that the toxic smoke from glass fire in 2020 caused Woodbridge and other wine manufacturing to scrape most of the crop that year.

Michelle Novi, Napa Valley Vintnes and Michelle Novi, a non -profit trade unit, said that any grape bond from Pickhett Fire was not damaged.

According to California Forest and Fire Protection Department or Cal Fire, fire extinguishing sources were provided to protect wine workshops, especially as winds were collected.

“We see high temperatures with high temperatures over the last 48 hours, high temperatures, low -moisture matched the wind, which is matched to the wind with a low moisture in the east side of this event,” a Curtis Rhodes, a Cal Fire spokesman, said in a statement on Monday.

Meanwhile, in Southwest Montana, a 60 -year -old contract firefighter died of a cardiac emergency while fighting Bivens Creek fire in the afternoon.

Ruben Gonzales Romero, Virginia City, and more than 700 firefighters working on lightning fire in the tobacco root mountains about 15 miles north of Montana.

Bivens Creek fire has burned approximately 3.5 m2 since August 13, in a remote area with a thick timber and a large number of dead trees.

Western US inhabitants are overwhelmed in a heat wave that takes some people to the hospital, temperatures hit dangerous levels in Washington, Oregon, South California, Nevada and Arizona during the weekend.

After a weekend of three -digit temperatures, the authorities in the Oregon Multnomah district, said that a 56 -year -old man probably explored the death of a man.

Deschutes County Sheriff’s spokesman Jason Carr said he was in the high desert climate in which dried herbs and juniper trees were burned and competing in the Tinder-Kuru Canyon areas where I was forced to create a fire holding lines.

In the center of California, Gifford Fire, the biggest fire of this year, has been kept 95% on Tuesday morning after the explosion of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara since it exploded on August 1st. The reason is being investigated.

Although it is difficult to directly connect a single fire or weather to the climate change directly, scientists say that human -induced heating causes more intense heat waves and droughts, and that it paves the ground for more destructive fires.