The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department shut down parks and implemented fresh fire bans as wildfires burned across northern Oregon on Thursday. State park officials shut down Mayer State Park and the Rowena Crest Viewpoint due to the Rowena fire burning in the Columbia River Gorge,

The Wasco County Sheriff’s Office ordered residents in more than 730 homes in the surrounding area to evacuate and closed a section of Interstate 84, which connects Portland to Idaho. Firefighters were conducting controlled burns to slow the fire’s spread into the night.

A wildfire in Oregon has prompted evacuation orders for hundreds of homes and the closure of nearly 20 miles of an interstate in the Columbia River Gorge.