As of Friday morning, 38 fires are burning from southern Oregon to Clackamas County. Ten of these are major fires that run through Oregon with no real containment.
“We have never seen this amount of uncontained fire across the state,” said Gov. Brown during a press conference.
Trump approves emergency declaration for Oregon
The wildfires in Oregon wildfires that started this week quickly became a major crisis. President Trump approved Oregon’s Emergency Declaration, a day after he received a letter from state lawmakers requesting disaster assistance.
President Trump has authorized, “the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures … to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe,” according to a statement from the White House.
Poor air quality
Widespread smoke continues to blanket Northern California and Northwest Oregon.
