MORO, Oregon — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act allowing state officials to mobilize additional workers to battle a combination of blazes in a southwestern part of the state.
Brown invoked the emergency declaration Saturday morning in response to the Garner Complex of fires in Jackson and Josephine counties where some homeowners are under various levels of evacuation orders.
Officials say the fires are expected to grow with hot, dry and windy weather conditions.
More than 1,000
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