August 4, 2022 4:20 a.m.

Firefighters from the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest continued work on lightning-caused fires on Wednesday.

Public Information Officer Margueritte Hickman said the Bitter Fire was detected, attacked and controlled to .10 acres. Hickman said fires in the district are scattered across a very broad area ranging from near Crater Lake National Park south to near Fish Lake.

A load of helicopter rappellers and a Type 1 helicopter has been assigned to the Clover Fire on the Fremont-Winema National Forest.

The RRSNF provided two twenty-person Type 2 initial attack crews and a Type 1 helicopter to support the Bureau of Land Management and the Oregon Department of Forestry on the Wards Creek Fire, about three and a half miles northeast of Rogue River.

Resources continue to be engaged on the Alex Fire, on the Klamath National Forest. That fire has been mapped at just over 150 acres.

Hickman said the McKinney Fire remains uncontrolled on the Klamath National Forest in Northern California. It is listed as just over 57,500 acres as of early Thursday morning.

Fire Danger is classified as EXTEME on the RRSNF. Despite the rain received in some areas, fuels will dry out quickly with the heat and wind.