Around half a million people in Oregon have been put under evacuation alerts, with residents of its largest city told to be ready to leave.
Around half a million people in Oregon have been put under evacuation alerts, with residents of its largest city told to be ready to leave, as wildfires that have taken 24 lives since erupting in August tore through three US West Coast states.
The logging town was on the front line of a vast evacuation zone stretching north to within 4.8 km of downtown Portland, with Clackamas County police setting a 0500 on Saturday curfew to deter “possible increased criminal activity". “The weather is going to be favourable for us,” said Doug Grafe, chief of fire protection for the Oregon Department of Forestry.Destruction under apocalyptic skies as 'unprecedented' wildfires rage on the US west coast
In neighboring Washington state to the north, online video from the Tacoma area showed fires starting in a residential area and setting homes ablaze. People were seen running from house to house to warn neighbours.Flames consume a home and car as the Bear Fire burns through the Berry Creek area of Butte County, California on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020.
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