Oregon Wildfire Smoke “Boiling” across state

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At about 5:30 pm, on September 8, 2020, I had been working in the office and started to smell smoke. I walked out on the front deck and saw great plumes of smoke rising over the trees. With that much smoke, I thought the whole hill was on fire. I turned on the scanner app on my phone, jumped on the ATV, and headed up the hill to see how close it was. It turned out that 90% of this smoke was coming from all the fires burning East of Portland and Salem.  I was told that it was boiling like this because it was being re-heated as it crossed over the Bald Peak Fire just 8 miles South of us.  As soon as I  was sure we were not in immediate danger, I went back to the house, grabbed the cameras, and started filming.   As I filmed, the air was heavy with the smell of smoke, and there were no birds.  

Watch the rolling smoke video on YouTube at https://youtu.be/itGtrRmq0c0

Bio: I have been a full-time Photographer, Location Scout, and Location Manager for the last 30 years. I have worked on projects for Western Star trucks, BMW, Ford as well as architecture photography for many architects and realtors.  Most of my time as a photographer, I’m shooting photos to sell as stock photography,  on my website, and several stock agencies worldwide. As of this writing, there are over 100 Thousand images on my website dougonlocation.com.

By Doug Reynolds
DougOnLocation.Com
instagram: @dougonlocation

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