Fire west of Sunriver continues to threaten communities with extreme fire behavior
Despite rain – and even light snow at higher elevations – on Wednesday, evacuation levels stayed the same around the large Bachelor Complex Fire burning 20 miles southwest of Bend and threatening residents in Sunriver. The Little Lava Fire, the largest of the 10,330-acre Bachelor complex at 9,848 acres as of Wednesday, pushed east over the last couple of days and crossed RD 45 Tuesday, burning about 300 acres, according to an update from Nathan Goodrich, operation chief for the command incident’s management team assigned to the fire…
