Cooler weather helped the 870 firefighting personnel assigned to the Burdoin Fire get a small foothold on the Columbia River Gorge wildfire but evacuation levels are expected to remain in place as Gor

The wildfire along the Columbia River Gorge started about 2:30 p.m. Friday and had burned nearly 11,000 acres as of Tuesday morning.

At least 850 personnel are fighting the Burdoin Fire and some national forest lands in the Columbia River Gorge are now closed.