(Salem, OR) -- The Oregon Department of Forestry is sending an incident management team to the Klamath-Lake District to help battle the Elk Fire. The blaze burning in the Bly Mountain area has scorched over one-thousand acres. The forestry department is sending in structural firefighters from Benton and Lane counties to help protect homes and other structures. Local firefighters are currently being stretched thin after lightning storms sparked several new wildfires across southern Oregon.