Survivors of wildfires in Oregon recount their ordeal as an unprecedented spate of fierce, wind-driven wildfires in the state all but destroyed five small towns. Oregon has felt the brunt of nearly 100 major wildfires ripping across the western U.S.
In the past 48 hours, four people died from fires in California, while four were killed in Oregon and a 1-year-old boy died in Washington state, police reported. Thousands faced evacuation orders in the three states.
Police in Medford as well as in Douglas County to the north cautioned against rumors left-wing anti-fascists and right-wing Proud Boy arsonists were starting the fires. Some people counted their blessings after fleeing the Bear Creek trailer park where nearly every house burned. “We have never seen this amount of uncontained fire across the state,” Brown told a news conference. “We are feeling the acute impacts of climate change.”Climate scientists say global warming has contributed to greater extremes in wet and dry seasons, causing vegetation to flourish then dry out in the U.S. West, leaving more abundant, volatile fuel when fires.
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