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Fires destroyed thousands of homes and half-dozen small towns, killed at least 26
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/u-s-west-w...-1.5722326        Search for survivors on as wildfires rage in 3 western U.S. states, including Oregon, California
Fires destroyed thousands of homes and half-dozen small towns, killed at least 26
Thomson Reuters · Posted: Sep 13, 2020 10:29 AM ET | Last Updated: 1 hour ago      Crews were to resume searching for the dead on Sunday among blackened ruins left by massive wildfires raging in three western U.S. states, where millions of hectares have burned in weeks and "mass fatality" incidents are feared in Oregon.

A blitz of wildfires across California, Oregon and Washington state have destroyed thousands of homes and a half-dozen small towns this summer, scorching a landscape the size of New Jersey and killing at least 26 people since early August.

After four days of brutally hot, windy weather, the weekend brought calmer winds blowing inland from the Pacific Ocean and cooler, moister conditions that helped crews make headway against blazes that had burned unchecked earlier in the week.

In Oregon, Gov. Kate Brown called the perilous fires a "once-in-a-generation event," and the director of Oregon's office of emergency management, Andrew Phelps, said authorities were bracing for the possibility of "mass fatality" incidents.

"There are going to be a number of fatalities, folks that just couldn't get warning in time and couldn't evacuate their homes and get to safety," Phelps told MSNBC on Friday.    Oh no Eek Peep Faint
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