Happy Holidays and Giving Tuesday/ Support Victims of Oregon's Wildfire-

We are working to assist those affected, but there is a dire need for shelter, food, and water due to the rising number of evacuated families. Several wildfires broke out over the past week amid triple-digital temperatures across the West has forced thousands of evacuations and choked the air with smoke as strong winds complicated firefighting efforts. In Oregon, where 10 wildfires were actively burning Sunday, containment of the Cedar Creek Fire sparked by lightning storm on August 1 -- dropped from 12% to 0% as the fire exploded in size by more than 32,000 acres over the weekend, now swallowing 85,926 acres in very steep and difficult to access terrain. As wildfires tore through the parched lands, Oregonians were also contending with power shutoffs. Thousands of customers in Oregon, including those in the suburbs of Portland, were without power for part of the weekend.
We are working to assist those affected, but there is a dire need for shelter, food, and water due to the rising number of displaced families. A southwestern Oregon wildfire burning since mid-August spread rapidly from Friday to Saturday thanks to strong winds, more than tripling its total burned acreage in one day and prompting evacuation orders. The Rum Creek Fire, about a 50-mile drive northwest of Medford, has burned 4,319 acres. Evacuation orders were issued Friday and Saturday for a rural area in Oregon's Josephine County, including the small communities of Rand and Galice, county. It's unsafe for them to stay and threatens their safety, and the safety of emergency responders. Their life could be in great danger form this fire.

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