B2 THE BULLETIN • SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2015
The state's top-priority fire, the Canyon Creek
Complex outside CanyonCity, burns Wednesday afternoon.
LEFT: Smoke fills the sky as a hillside burns. MIDDLE: Signs thanking firefighters hang on the fence outside the Grant County Fairgrounds. RIGHT: A hillside burns outside of Canyon City.
Photos by Joe Kline• The Bulletin
outh of John Day, the Canyon Creek a
Complex Fire burns on. As the state’ s top-priority wildfire, the flames have destroyed36 homes, damaged 50 structures and burned morethan 61,000 acres,almost 100 square miles, south of Canyon City in Grant County. Approximately 700 structures are threatened, said Damon Simmons, spokesman for the Oregon State Fire Marshal team helping manage the fire. Basic necessities such as food, water, toiletries and clothes are stocked at a donation center at the fairgrounds for evacuees. g LEFT: Firefighters nap outside tents at the fire campset up at the fairgrounds in John Day.
Dale Rininger, of
John Day, volunteers stocking shelves with donated items for victims of the Can-
yon Creek Complex Fire. Evacuees and people who have lost their homes to the fire picked
up basic supplies at the fairground
donation center.
U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell, right, speaks at a briefing on
the fire Wednesday afternoon in JohnDay. As ofWednesday, the fire had burned over 48,000 acres. As of Friday evening, the fire had destroyed 36 homes and burned over 61,000 acres.
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