Fire danger remains extreme in areas included in the High Cascades Complex of wildfires which are burning near Crater Lake National Park, according to an update today from the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. Smoke in much of the area has become hazardous and unhealthy for the public and firefighters, and at the Incident Command Post south of Diamond Lake.

The unstable atmosphere Sunday, coupled with unseasonably hot, dry conditions and a wind shift to the west-northwest created convection columns and associated extreme fire behavior early afternoon causing firefighters to pull back from containment lines on Paradise, Broken Lookout, Windy Gap and Blanket Creek Fires. As a result, spot fires to the south and west of Forest Road 68 and constructed dozer and hand line have fire managers re-assessing their primary containment line on the west perimeter of the Broken Lookout (5,080 acres), Windy Gap (817 acres) and Paradise (1,532 acres) fires.

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