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Baker County Sheriff's Office Dispatch received several reports of lightning strikes and visible smoke in the Durkee area late this afternoon. Resources from Vale BLM, Keating Rural Fire Protection District, Powder River Rural Fire Department, Baker Rural Fire Rescue, Burnt River RFPA, Baker County Road Department, Baker County Emergency Management and Baker County Sheriff's Office responded. Three new fire starts were located.

Deputies performed Level 3 (GO NOW) evacuation notifications to residents in the area of Plano, Vandecar and Manning Creek Roads. Multiple structures are threatened at this time.

I-84 is closed to all traffic.

Within minutes of the first lightning strikes in Durkee, reports then came in of visible flames in Timber Canyon near Eagle Valley. Lookout-Glasgow RFPA, Pine Valley Rural Fire District, and Eagle Valley Rural Fire Protection District responded.