The hangover continues from a wildfire season that saw nearly 2 million acres burn in Oregon. On Oct. 10, the Oregon Department of Forestry asked the Oregon State Treasury for a $60 million loan to tide the agency over until it can get more money from the Legislature. Record firefighting costs this year have left ODF, which leads the state’s response to wildfires, broke. The agency says cost of fighting this year’s fires to date is $317.5 million, of which ODF expects reimbursement of more than $175 million from various federal agencies. But that federal compensation is both far less than the total cost of firefighting and trickles in more slowly than the invoices from the contractors ODF hires for firefighting.