Forecasters in the US say that dry and windy climate will proceed to gas wildfires.
The so-called Bootleg Fireplace in Oregon, protecting almost 4 hundred sq. miles, is the biggest blaze within the drought-hit western US and threatens hundreds of properties.
Smoke and warmth are creating hearth clouds reaching as much as six miles within the sky that are seen greater than 100 miles away.
Our Washington correspondent Siobhan Kennedy experiences from southern Oregon.