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The isolation unit at Sky Lakes Medical Center reached capacity on Tuesday and hospital authorities say they've created an additional one as the number of coronavirus patients in need of hospitalization continue to increase.

Murrow judges chose JPR reporter April Ehrlich's series Oppressed By Wildfire, as the best news series by a small-market radio station nationwide.

Fire officials say much of the east, south and west edges of the fire are in mop-up and patrol mode, but the north and northwest sides are still active. As of 7:00 a.m. on Friday, the fire has burned 56,018 acres and is now 46 percent contained.

Slater Fire has burned 154,145 acres and is at 48percent containment The Devil Fire is at 8410 acres and 20 percent containment.

Fire crews continue to battle the Red Fire and the Salmon Fire — known together as the Red Salmon Complex — in the Trinity Alps Wilderness on the Six Rivers and Shasta-Trinity National Forests. The Red Salmon Complex is 124,464 acres in size and is 31 percent contained.

Continued mild weather is allowing firefighters to strengthen fire lines and continue mop-up operations. The fire has burned 50,477 acres and is 52 percent contained.

Conditions are very favorable on all parts of the fire to continue mop up and rehab. The fire has burned 32,671 areas and is 65 percent contained.

More evacuation levels lowered in Talent and Phoenix; I-5 Exits 21 and 24 have reopened.

Shifting weather conditions - plus progress on major wildfires in the region - results in improved air quality in Southern Oregon and Northern California.

The fire remains at 14,536 acres. Containment has increased to 21 percent.

The Archie Creek Fire burning east of Roseburg in the North Umpqua corridor on state, private and federal land. It's burned 125,498 acres and is now 20 percent contained.

Almost all of the West Coast, from San Diego to Vancouver, Canada, remains covered in thick layers of unhealthy smoke.