DURKEE, Oregon — As the Durkee Fire burned in eastern Oregon, other major fires blazed at the same time across Oregon and Washington, straining both national and state resources. Fire crews were so strapped nationally that firefighters from Virginia with little experience with range wildfires were the only personnel available. When the fire season began to ebb at the end of September, 1.9 million acres in Oregon had burned — a state record. …The average acreage that burns each year statewide has doubled every decade since the 1990s, said Oregon state Sen. Jeff Golden, who chairs the Senate Interim Committee on Natural Resources and Wildfire. …In Oregon, current funding mechanisms are inadequate to address the growing complexity and cost of wildfires, Joe Krawczyk said, and the need for a “sustainable and equitable funding structure has never been more urgent.”