Lily Morgan, Josephine County Commissioner

Lily Morgan discusses the latest regarding Slater fire and evacuations in Josephine County.

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A lot of evacuations in the josephine county area.

The fire has quickly grown just over the last two days,.

Joining us now is lily morgan, josephine county commissioner.

--which areas of josephine county have been evacuated due to the slater fire?

--do you know if other areas of the county are subject to evacuations?

--some people have called us from near the store in obrien.

Isn't o'brien in an evacuation zone?

Re started just three days ago has quickly spread from happy camp california and into josephine county oregon.

Take a look at this map.

This is the most up to date fire map shared by fire officials.

As we mentioned the fire is more than 120 thousand acres.

There is no estimate on containment right now.

We also know two people have died in this fire.

The siskiyou county sheriff's office confirmed one death in the burn area near happy camp.

Right now the identity of that person is under investigation.

The sheriff's office also says 150 homes in the happy camp area