The wave of wildfires that shakes the northwestern United States has so far killed a dozen in California, four in Oregon and one in Washington.
It was in the latter state that a member of the Armed Forces recorded with his own mobile the moments of tension experienced in a Takoma neighborhood.
The man was driving home and stopped to help his neighbors, cornered by flames.
More than half a million people have had to leave their homes to be safe from the fire, that is, almost 10% of the population of Oregon (with 4.2 million inhabitants) has been evacuated, reports
Pablo Ximénez de Sandoval
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