US: Major wildfire in Oregon grows, forcing new evacuations

Bootleg, the largest of 80 major fires now active in the US, spread three times the size of the metropolis of Detroit overnight. Some 2,000 people have had to evacuate.

With oppressively hot, dry weather looming over much of the Western US and Canada on Sunday, the enormous Bootleg Fire in Oregon grew again and authorities ordered new evacuations. Bootleg, the largest of 80 major fires now active in the US, spread overnight from 274,000 acres to 290,000 acres -- three times the size of the metropolis of Detroit, officials said.