Enormous Bootleg Fire sends smoke entire length of Oregon

Bly, Oregon — Erratic winds and parched Oregon forests added to the dangers for firefighters on Monday as they battled the largest wildfire in the U.S., one of dozens burning across several Western states.

The destructive Bootleg Fire was considered one of the largest in modern Oregon history and was burning more than 476 square miles, an area about the size of Los Angeles and three times the size of Detroit. The blaze just north of the California border was about 25% contained. National Weather Service satellite images showed a huge plume of smoke from Bootleg, in southern Oregon, to the Canadian border, hundreds of miles northeast, the Agence France-Presse news service noted.