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Level 3 evacuations at Mt. Hood and expanded Utah evacuation orders · EM Morning Brief

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  Good morning.
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  I'm Cedric and This is your EM Morning Brief for Thursday, August 6, 2026.
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  The nation remains at preparedness level 5, the highest tier where it has stood since July 18.
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  The National Interagency Fire center reports 97 new fires yesterday, including three new large fires and 94 uncontained large fires burning nationwide with more than 28,700 personnel assigned.
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  The Northwest carries the heaviest load with 49 uncontained large fires across Washington and Oregon so far in fire year 2026, 45,184 wildfires have burned more than 5.4 million acres, well above the 10 year average.
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  National support includes 27 complex incident management teams, firefighters from Australia and New Zealand, and four C130 air tankers.
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  A federal emergency declaration is in effect for Washington in response to the wildfires.
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  Official update published within the last 48 hours extreme heat continues to drive fire risk across the west the National Weather Service in Phoenix issued an extreme heat warning Wednesday in effect through Sunday evening with afternoon highs of 104
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  to 118 degrees around across south central Arizona and California's Imperial Valley.
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  Heat alerts also cover the Pacific Northwest, where temperatures near 100 degrees are expected in the Willamette Valley and overnight humidity recovery remains poor across much of the fire area in the Atlantic.
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  The National Hurricane center reports no tropical cyclone formation is expected during the next seven days.
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  On the cyber front, CISA added new entries to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog this week, most recently on Wednesday.
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  The additions include a critical langflow code injection flaw CVE2026 9198, an Apache Tomcat encryption bypass and an ENABLE N Central authentication bypass, all under active exploitation.
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  Separately, the State Department published an Ebola response update Wednesday.
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  The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and South Sudan remain at level four do not travel and the department intends to provide an additional $242 million for regional response and preparedness.
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  Let's run through the states.
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  Five large fires are burning 22,321 acres.
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  The Gan Fire southeast of Valley springs stands at 6,495 acres with no containment, while the Rock Fire north of independence is 98% contained at 12,008 acres.
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  Very low humidity and continued extreme heat keep fire potential elevated statewide.
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  Colorado the Aspen Acres fire northwest of rye holds at 101,961 acres and 71% containment.
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  Five large fires are burning 152,695 acres statewide and isolated dry thunderstorms are possible across southern Colorado today.
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  Georgia Columbus Clayton county is investigating possible unauthorized cyber activity behind a pump station failure that disrupted water operations in north Clayton and prompted a boil water advisory.
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  The advisory has been lifted after testing showed the water is safe.
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  The investigation follows federal warnings about cyberattacks targeting municipal water systems in multiple states.
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  Idaho the Tartar fire northwest of weiser has burned 138,271 acres and is 41% contained.
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  A new large fire, the Cascade Fire, was reported on the Nez Perce Clearwater National Forest east of Lowell.
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  Seven large fires are burning 145,038 acres statewide.
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  Now back to this Morning's updates.
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  Minnesota Six large fires are burning nearly 70,000 acres in the Superior National Forest, led by the Bear trap fire at 29,778 acres and 40% containment north of Ely.
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  Recent rain has helped crews raise containment across the July lightning incident fires.
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  Portions of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness have reopened, but Class 4 burning restrictions remain in Cook Lake, Kuchiching and northern St.
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  Louis counties and the state's peacetime emergency continues.
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  Montana Nine large fires are burning 15,120 acres.
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  The Silvertip Fire northeast of Condon is the largest at 6,196 acres and 1% containment.
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  A new fire, the Kimmet Fire in Hill county burned a thousand acres and is fully contained.
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  Nevada the Ward Fire on the Humboldt Toyabe National Forest continues to exhibit extreme fire behavior at 8,728 acres with no containment.
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  Five large fires are burning more than 102,000 acres statewide, including the 38,000 acre Mouse Meadow Fire on Nellis Air Force Base land.
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  New Mexico Two new large fires were reported the Frio fire east of Albuquerque at 152 acres and 19% containment, and the Elbar Ranch fire northeast of Cebollieta at 170 acres and 5% containment.
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  Isolated dry thunderstorms are possible across northern New Mexico today.
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  Oregon Oregon leads the nation with 32 large fires on more than 1.65 million acres.
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  The Grasshopper Fire on the Mount Hood National Forest has pushed Level 3 GoNOW evacuations to Mount Hood Meadows and Timberline Lodge came under evacuation orders Wednesday.
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  The Rogue Creek Complex south of fossil has burned 325,265 acres at 57% containment.
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  The big Grass Fire near Jordan Valley stands at 346,678 acres and 35% and the Coleman Creek fire near Juntura is at 2.78,128 acres and 32%.
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  Utah the Widemouth 2 fire southwest of Kanosh has grown to 84,409 acres, which with no containment after adding more than 16,000 acres in a single day.
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  Evacuation orders remain in place for portions of Fillmore, Kanosh and Meadow, with an emergency shelter open at the old National Guard Armory in Fillmore.
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  A federal emergency declaration is in effect for the wildfires.
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  Official update published within the last 48 hours, the Spokane area fires have forced roughly 65,000 evacuations and destroyed more than 600 structures, with officials reporting about 640 lost in the Old Trails Fire alone.
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  All 14 people previously unaccounted for are confirmed safe and some evacuation zones have been downgraded.
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  The Sinlahakin Fire west of tanasket has burned 117,078 acres at 9% containment the Little Giant Fire northwest of Leavenworth tops 70,000 acres with no containment and the Kaiser Canyon Fire near Nespelum stands at 136,713 acres and 48%.
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  Sixteen large fires are burning more than 432,000 acres statewide.
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  All other states and territories have no significant updates in the last 24 hours.
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  That wraps today's EM Morning Brief.
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