In pictures: Wildfires raging in the West
Nicolas Bey, 11, hugs his father, Sayyid Bey, on Monday, July 19, near a donated trailer they are using after their home was burned in the Bootleg Fire near Beatty, Oregon.
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Updated 4:44 PM ET, Tue July 20, 2021
Nicolas Bey, 11, hugs his father, Sayyid Bey, on Monday, July 19, near a donated trailer they are using after their home was burned in the Bootleg Fire near Beatty, Oregon.
David Ryder/Reuters
Dozens of large wildfires are raging across the western United States as the region experiences a historic and unrelenting drought.
The biggest right now is the Bootleg Fire, which has been burning in the Fremont-Winema National Forest along the Oregon and California border. As of Tuesday, July 20, it had burned more than 388,000 acres. Officials were warning more Oregon residents to prepare to evacuate.
With wildfires burning across much of the West, the nation is at its highest level of fire preparedness, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. This is the earliest move to Preparedness Level 5 — also known as PL 5 — in the past decade, the agency said.
