The town of Oakridge is once again watching as a large fire burns near them.
We spoke to the mayor and fire crews about their fears as the fire remains zero percent contained.
At Oakridge Elementary, a fire base has been set up to give residents the latest information on what's burning near them.
You can see lot of haze in the valley as we investigated what crews and residents are currently up against.
"It still burns your eyes and makes it difficult to breathe for some," says Oakridge Mayor Christina Hollett.
A volunteer firefighter herself, Mayor Hollett is no stranger to wildfires in her community.
"We experience wildfires here in this area pretty often, so I think for some this is a little routine, and for others they're pretty scared."
She wants to make sure her residents are informed.
"We have 10 a.m. briefings every single day on both the Cedar Creek and the Windigo and Potter fires."
Those meetings include plans for how to best approach the fire.
"We have a road system that we are going to use as an indirect containment line," says Jacob Welsh, spokesperson for the Cedar Creek Fire National Incident Team.
And they’re using choppers to fight the tall flames.
"Everybody who has been on the Willamette knows it's really steep. There's a lot of big trees, and a lot of those trees are dead and when they catch fire they tend to fall down. Those can create significant [] for our troops on the ground."
Crews are working tirelessly to put out the blaze.
"A lot of us are working 12-to-16-hour shifts daily, so that kind of has a toll."
They are unsure of what lies ahead each day.
"With lightning coming, we can expect new starts from the storms that come in. How many? We don't know. And how wet will the storms be? We don't know, either, so we hope for the best but plan for the worst."
Mayor Hollett also recommends people sign up for reverse 911 alerts through the county to get the latest information on those fires and evacuation routes.
"I try to stress to people not to worry, but be prepared. So that means making sure you're on our reverse 911 system which is through the county and it's AlertSense, so you can go on the website and sign up. Whether you have an apple phone or android phone, or a traditional landline; that way we can send messages out if there is an emergency."