The fight against fire season has all hands on deck including Senator Jeff Merkley.
The senator was in town Tuesday at the Joint Information Center in Grants Pass to get feedback from our local firefighting agencies who about even more fire growth these next few days. "None of its good news. Hopefully our forecast is wrong. I don't usually want our forecast to be wrong," said Ryan Sandler, from the National Weather Service.
Bad fire weather in the forecast has a room full of firefighters on edge.
"Now we're into mid-August, this is climatologically the peak of fire season. The bad news is we're expecting some lightening," said Sandler.
Lightning is what caused dozens of wildfires in our region already and what's responsible for those hazy smoky skies our lungs can't get used to.