Brief: Urgent Wildfire and Evacuation Updates

EM Morning Brief · Sep 15, 2026 · 22m · transcript

I report that wildfire remains the dominant national picture, with elevated activity and acreage well above the ten-year average. We note the National Interagency Coordination Center lists the national preparedness level at 3, with 57 uncontained large fires, 105 active incidents, and approximately 2.5 million cumulative acres affected. I also report a newly listed CISA exploited vulnerability, CVE-2026-76461, in the Cisco Secure Email Gateway, with a federal remediation deadline of September 17, 2026 under BOD 26-04. We detail multiple evacuations and local impacts, including fires in…