The West Coast's deadly wildfires have blanketed swaths of it with unhealthy smoke, complicating efforts to fight the blazes and find dozens of missing people and compounding the misery of thousands who've been displaced. 9News
About 100 large fires were burning Saturday in the US West overall, including 12 in Idaho and nine in Montana, the National Interagency Fire Center said.A woman walks along The Embarcadero under an orange smoke-filled sky Wednesday in San Francisco., Oregon and Washington and parts of Idaho — and that smoke could make people more vulnerable to COVID-19, doctors say.
Already, dozens are missing, the state's governor said, mostly across Jackson, Lane and Marion counties in western Oregon. Fires in the state have burned more than 3.1 million acres so far, 26 times higher than what was burned by this time last year, according to Cal Fire. More than 3900 structures have been destroyed this year, fire officials said.
John Tripp, who evacuated his home in Butte County, says he has no idea what he'll find when he returns.
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