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New Wednesday of New Times by Peter Uj.
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From California to Washington state, the west coast of the United States is on fire, where forests and populated areas are threatened by unstoppable wildfires and wildfires.
In California, more than 2.5 million acres have been destroyed by fire in recent weeks, with forests and shrubbery burned in 28 locations at once, and all of Southern California’s number 8 national parks were closed due to fires a earlier this week.
By Wednesday night, 8 people had died in the fires, mostly drivers, who were surrounded by flames on the road and could not escape.
More than 14,000 firefighters are fighting the fire, without success. On Wednesday, however, the flames not only devastated northern California, but also spread to neighboring Oregon state, reaching one of its major northern cities, Portland, near the Washington state line.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco was covered in almost complete darkness Wednesday due to dense, almost impenetrable smoke, and then in the afternoon the darkness was replaced by the purple color of the flames. Something similar has been reported in several California settlements, the strange thing is that the California wildfires and scrub fires, plagued by 20 years of drought, have also delivered a lot of smoke and ash to the higher layers of the atmosphere, now preventing sunlight reaches much of the state.
“It’s like the end of the world has come!”
the newspaper quoted one of the locals as saying.
Gov. of Oregon, California’s neighbor to the north, Kate Brown, called the blaze unprecedented. At a press conference, she said: five smaller cities have been completely engulfed by fire, she fears that the death toll in the natural disaster will be record high.
The southern and central Oregon countryside is on fire, and the natural beauty of southern Oregon has been essentially destroyed, according to the governor.
“This could be the largest loss in the history of the state, both in human life and in natural and built heritage,” said Kate Brown. “I’ll be honest, we expect more losses,” he added.
In southern Oregon, several cities were evacuated and residents were transported to shelters in upstate.
American televisions show apocalyptic images of the West Coast. Drought, extreme heat and high winds are reportedly causing “historic devastation”. The landscape burned down in Canada’s neighboring Washington state Wednesday night, creating a fire zone essentially connected from Mexico to the Canadian border (BBC, Los Angeles Times, MTI)
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