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the fire situation here in Oregon

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LIVE TODAY @ 4:00 pm Pacific It's the Boze Noze Show! I am changing plans and moving the interview with Scott to a later date so we can cover the fire situation here in Oregon. The one in 100-year east wind event unfortunately lived up to the warnings and is causing tragedy on a scale we have not seen here in Oregon since the 1930's. The big fire in Lane County along the McKenzie River valley is now at 104,000 acres and zero percent contained and over 3,000 homes have been evacuated. Stories are starting to come in of nearly the entire town of Blue River being lost and other homes and businesses destroyed. Worse yet, the fire moved so fast that officials believe there was loss of life but have been unable to access the areas to confirm any. Cell phone towers were burned so communication is near impossible in the steep hilly terrain. Fire fighting resources are stretched so thin as to be almost non-existent compared to the size of the fires. Air quality in our area is off the scale unhealthy but i fell fortuna