New U.S. Forest Service Chief Tony Tooke visited the Eagle Creek Fire site over the weekend to get an assessment of the situation.  Tooke pointed out this has been a difficult fire season around the nation, with over eight million acres burned and no weather-ending event in site. He says the Forest Service has been at its highest fire planning level for 31 straight days with 80 fires of greater than 100 acres or more currently burning around the country when the average is usually 20, and that has resources stretched thin.  He says they’ve spent all of the Forest Service fire suppression funds in its budget, the ninth time since 2002 that has occurred, and that means they have to transfer funds from other accounts.  He says additional funding approved by Congress won’t be enough, and called for a fire funding fix that would see large scale fires eligible for disaster funds.  Tooke did have some good news, noting the number of structures burned nationally this year is half of normal.  Tooke also expressed a worry about firefighter fatigue.  Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, Congressmen Greg Walden and Peter DeFazio, and Governor Kate Brown joined Tooke in touring the fire area.