SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A wildfire that broke out in southern Oregon’s mountains is spreading in windy, hot and dry conditions. That prompted Gov. Kate Brown to invoke the Emergency Conflagration Act that makes more state resources available to fight the fire. The fire is burning in steep, rugged terrain in mixed conifer and lodgepole pine in the Fremont-Winema National Forest, about 10 miles northeast of the unincorporated community of Sprague River. Another fire, east of Roseburg, grew to an estimated 2,395 acres, and additional evacuations were ordered Wednesday evening in the area of Dry Creek near Highway 138.
Wildfire grows in southern Oregon in hot, dry conditions
