“We’re still sitting on the edge of our seats in our fire engines because the fire danger is increasing,” Lee Vaughn of the Oregon Department of Forestry said. “To tell the truth, we don’t know why fires haven’t taken off.”
Larger fuels, branches over three inches thick for example, are drying out now, Vaughn said. The Oregon Department of Forestry has gone to Industrial Fire Precaution Level III, and the U.S. Forest Service has implemented…