JULY 23, 2021, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A15
BOOTLEG,
Continued from page A2
corner of our state is immune to fi re. On
the West Coast, and here in Oregon, the
urgent and dangerous climate crisis has
exacerbated conditions on the ground.
We’re seeing extensive drought condi-
tions across the state, with 19 counties
in drought emergencies. Unprecedented
heat waves. And fi re seasons that are
arriving earlier, coming on faster and
lasting for longer."
Less than a week after the Bootleg Fire
started, KFD sent out three fi refi ghters to
the Grandview Fire outside of Sisters. The
crew spent fi ve days at the Grandview Fire
before being demobilized and redeployed
to the Bootleg Fire on Friday, July 16.
After Task Force 16 was demobilized
and sent home from the Bootleg Fire on
Saturday, July 17, the KFD truck, along
with other Marion County fi re engines,
was then sent to the Elbow Creek Fire
in NE Oregon in Wallowa County. It is
unknown when they will be sent home.
Task Force 16 will be ready to deploy
again to the Bootleg Fire in the coming
days.
Additionally, KFD had two staff mem-
bers handle communications for the
Bootleg Fire confl agration.
“We are kind of all over the place and
have staff members doing all sorts of dif-
ferent things,” Butler said. “They are work-
ing incredibly hard, doing shifts from 5
a.m. until 10 p.m.”
While the 2020 fi re season was argu-
ably the worst on record in the history
of the state, Butler said that this fi re sea-
son has been even more hectic up to this
point.
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In years past, KFD has often provided
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