Half a million have fled their homes: Unprecedented fires on the west coast of the United States - Walla! News

2020-09-11T09:35:05.236Z

At least nine perished in Oregon, California and Washington state, including a 12-year-old and his grandmother. The main focus is in Oregon, where it has gone up in flames almost double the average of the last decade. One of the fires is being investigated as an arson. The governor: "These are the serious consequences of climate change." In San Francisco, the sky was painted orange

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Half a million have fled their homes: unprecedented fires on the west coast of the United States

At least nine perished in Oregon, California and Washington state, including a 12-year-old and his grandmother.

The main focus is in Oregon, where it has gone up in flames almost double the average of the last decade.

One of the fires is being investigated as an arson.

The governor: "These are the serious consequences of climate change."

In San Francisco, the sky was painted orange

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USA: Hundreds of homes burned down in Oregon, "Great loss of life expected"

Homes destroyed in fire in Medford, Oregon (Photo: Reuters)

Hundreds of thousands were required to evacuate their homes (Photo: Reuters)

The fires in Oregon have raged in at least five communities living in the Cascade Mountains and also in the rainforest areas along the coast, which generally do not suffer from fires.

In eastern Washington state, the small agricultural town of Melden was almost completely destroyed by fire.

In central Oregon, rescue and search teams entered destroyed communities like Detroit, where firefighters led residents to a dramatic escape through the mountains after military helicopters failed to evacuate the town.

Authorities said they found a 12-year-old boy and a lifeless dog in a burned-out car, and his grandmother apparently also died after the flames engulfed an area near Lyons, about 80 miles south of Portland.

South of there, small communities near the town of Madford were burned. Until April. Some residents thanked for their success in surviving, after fleeing the Bar Creek RV Park, where most of the houses went up in flames.

"Thank God we were home," said Giulio Flores, who fled with his two children, who were supposed to stay home alone. "If his restaurant were working normally without the Corona epidemic,

firefighters explained that the hot, dry winds from the east spread the flames from community to community, then from house to house.

" Once there are many winds, this fire can spread for miles, "said firefighter Andy Cardinal. At Eagle Point, north of Hereford, in preparation for the evacuation of the town of ten thousand inhabitants.

"The fire can spread for miles."

Burned vehicles in Nimrod, Oregon (Photo: Reuters)

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said about 3,640 square miles have already gone up in flames this year, compared to about 2,020 each year on average in the past decade. "We have never seen such an extent of uncontrolled fires across the state," Brown said at a news conference. experiencing the severe consequences of climate change. "

Climatologists say global warming has exacerbated rainy seasons and continents, the lush vegetation dries on the west coast of the United States, and is becoming a fertile ground unstable fires.

until the evening hours yesterday, merged the two biggest fire in Oregon Raging about 38 miles southeast of the city of Portland, which led to a significant expansion of the evacuation of the densely populated Clamcas County.

When asked if areas in Portland might be evacuated as well, the state's deputy fire department, Mariana Rose Temple, said it would all depend on wind direction and intensity.

Satellite image of destruction in the city of Madford (Photo: Reuters)

In California, some 64,000 people are under evacuation orders, while firefighters are battling 29 major fires across the most populous state in the United States.

About a third of those residents were forced to evacuate from Butt County, north of Sacramento, the capital, where the "Northern Compound" fire burned with flames close to 1,000 square kilometers, destroying more than 2,000 homes and buildings. In San Francisco, the sky was orange due to large city fires.

San Francisco Sky, This Week (Photo: Reuters)

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