Oregon wilderness fire was being managed A wildfire that got a boost from shifting winds and threatened an Eastern Oregon town began as a smaller blaze that was being managed rather than suppressed. The fire in wilderness in the Ochoco National Forest was being managed under the "wildland fire use" designation before the wind shifted. Fire managers said Monday it was threatening the small town of Mitchell in Wheeler County, as well as a campground and a fire lookout. "The wind shifted and came out of the southeast, and it went exactly where we didn't want it to go," fire team spokesman Robin Vora told The Oregonian newspaper. "The objective changed from wildland fire use to all-out suppression." Wildland-fire-use designations cover only a fraction of the many thousands of wildland fires each year. In 2007, there were 85,822 wildland fires in the United States - 346 managed in the new method, according to the National Interagency Fire Center....