FIRE MAP -- See NW wildfires - 900+ active fires now.

[L. Coyote]

Many people are inhaling smoke in the PNW.

https://www.fireweatheravalanche.org/
The Fire, Weather & Avalanche Center is a non-profit organization seeking to provide critical, decision-making information to backcountry users and the public—whether it be wildfire, weather, or avalanche & snow related. We are currently piloting a suite of products for the mountains of Northeast Oregon, as well as a Northwest US wildfire map.

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[uppityperson]

1. That's quite the map but it looks like some of those fires seem to be out for a while

Smoke from OR should be in Puget Sound today. Living in the woods is dry and scary right now.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. My kids still live up there, I asked them for info of the fires.

Never saw this many forest fires in my life.

there have been dry spells before in the Cascades and Olympics, usually in August for a few weeks, usually more often in the Cascades. When I was a young kid, I remember warnings about no campfires, no chain saws, be careful with matches if you were going into the forests. Most people understood that.
and, you had to carry a shovel in your trunk....required.

State Patrol would check cars on the passes to make sure you had shovels in the summer, chains in the winter.
amazing number of old pickups with bald tires would be turned back.

[CentralMass]

3. The air quality has been bad for weeks around the Portland area.

[L. Coyote]

4. Even the Coast had some of the worst smokey air I've ever seen, albeit briefly.

We get the onshore winds almost daily and it is clear air here again.

[CentralMass]

7. I've taken a few trips there..The Oregon coast is beautiful.

[central scrutinizer]

5. Visibility here in Eugene is 1/4 mile

Strong smoke smell. Worse than yesterday.

[L. Coyote]

6. Alsea River area now smokey, smells when stepping outside. Wind shifted after noon, now clearing

again with the afternoon onshore wind. That should help Eugene area too, especially near the pass.

[L. Coyote]

8. Idiot With Fireworks Starts Columbia River Gorge Fire That Strands 150 Hikers and Threatens Town

http://www.wweek.com/news/2017/09/03/idiot-with-fireworks-starts-columbia-river-gorge-fire-that-strands-150-hikers-and-threatens-town-of-cascade-locks/
Aaron Mesh | 5:36 PM

An idiot setting off fireworks near Punchbowl Falls is the likely cause of a wildfire in the Columbia River Gorge that has consumed 3,000 acres, stranded 153 hikers overnight on a trail, and has the town of Cascade Locks preparing to evacuate over Labor Day weekend.

Oregon State Police announced this afternoon that the likely cause of the forest fire was this moron using fireworks on the Eagle Creek trail, one of the most popular destinations in the waterfall district east of Portland.

“We believe that fireworks is the cause,” says Sgt. Kaipo Raiser of the Oregon State Police. “We do have a suspect identified. No one has been arrested at this point. Potentially, there could be criminal penalties as well.” ...............

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