Four Oakland firefighters departed the Bay Area on Thursday to help put out the Bootleg Fire in Oregon, fire officials said.

The fire as of Friday evening had burned nearly 39,000 acres in the Fremont-Winema National Forest and doubled in size in one day. The fire has forced people from their homes and was zero percent contained.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.