Large wildfires still burning millions of acres out West

Dozens of large wildfires are still scorching land in more than a dozen states across the country. Eleven of these states are in the West.

As of Thursday, these 79 large fires had burned almost 1.5 million acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.

The Bootleg fire in southern Oregon is the largest in the country, first reported on July 6. Seventeen days later, it’s almost 400,000 acres in size and 40% contained. This is based on an early Friday morning report from InciW...

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