Oregon Cougar Peak Fire Saturday,11th Sep.2021

 

The  wildfire spreading rapidly in the Fremont-Winema National Forest has more than quadrupled its size in three   days.

The Cougar Peak fire was discovered Tuesday afternoon about 15 miles northwest of Lakeview, a rural southern Oregon town and the Lake County seat. The blaze grew to about 20,000 acres by Wednesday night, according to the U.S. Forest Service’s Lakeview Ranger District.

Then, yesterday , it had grown to more than  80,000 acres