US wildfire alert at highest level
Updated on 19 July 2007
International wildfire crews could be called to help fight blazes in the bone-dry American West as officials boosted the US wildfire alert to its highest level.
"It's driven by a couple of things - the number of large fires we have, and also the fires are occurring in several states and in several geographic areas," said Randy Eardley, a spokesman for the National Interagency Fire Centre in Boise, Idaho. "The resources we have are being stretched thin."
The wildfire preparedness level was raised to five as dry lightning blasted and sparked dozens of new blazes in Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Utah, where firefighters have been stretched thin by nearly 70 fires bigger than 100 acres burning in 12 states.
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