Warming temperatures and increasing winds have caused the Bull Complex east of Salem to expand roughly 300 acres.
Helicopter drops have been called in, on an incident that’s nearing 7-thousand acres but remains at 0 percent containment. 463 personnel are using controlled burns and what’s called indirect containment lines -such as roads, waterways, and ridges- to help limit its spread.
Nick Howell is a public information officer with the incident.
”The Bull Complex is competing for resources, and we are still short on some crews and some other special needs for this incident specifically," he told KLCC. "But there’s a lot of fire activity going on in the state and the region, so those resources are definitely assigned on a priority basis.”
Increased humidity could help damper the flames in the coming day. The Bull Complex is roughly 60 miles east of Salem, near the Warm Springs Reservation in the Mt. Hood National Forest.
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