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The large fires that have hit the west coast of the United States continue to advance, burning entire neighborhoods of the city and forcing the evacuation of homes in California, Oregon and Washington state: seven people died from the fires on Thursday. The worst affected state continues to be California, where hundreds of fires have also occurred in the north and center of the state, in Fresno, in the Los Angeles area and in Silicon Valley.
The situation is also particularly critical in the southern suburbs of Portland, Oregon, where the more than 400,000 residents of Clackamas County were placed on high alert overnight between Thursday and Friday and more than half were forced to evacuate. their homes. . Hundreds of homes in Oregon have already burned and another 400 are in danger. One of the largest fires, the “Almeda Fire,” hit Phoenix and Talent, in southern Oregon, earlier this week, and forced more evacuations Wednesday also in the city of Medford, which is the eighth city. larger. larger than Oregon with about 80,000 residents.
Short video of what our officers were watching last night. Very scary and very real. ???? for all those affected. This video was taken HWY 224 / Faraday pic.twitter.com/ZFnC7UxxhD
– Lieutenant Brian Jensen (@LtBJensen) September 10, 2020
An investigation has also been opened into the “Almeda Fire” which assumes that it may have been caused voluntarily. Gov. Kate Brown, who demanded that Oregon be granted a federal state of emergency, said the state had never seen such a large number of wildfires. Across the state of Oregon, more than 500,000 people, about 10 percent of the total population, have been forced to evacuate their homes.
In California, the “Bear Fire” continues to advance. In Butte County, dozens of homes were destroyed and ten people were found dead. Berry Creek, a city of about 1,200 residents, was largely destroyed by the “Bear Fire.” The smoke created by the fire on Wednesday morning had created a thick layer of smoke that covered the San Francisco Bay, partially blocking the sun’s rays from lighting the region. The anomalous situation had forced to turn on the lights of the cars and those of the offices of the skyscrapers even though it was daylight. In many areas of the bay, in San Francisco and Oakland, the sky remained orange until much of the morning of September 9.
According to an estimate by “Cal Fire,” the state wildland fire department, this year’s major fires in California, through September 8, affected more than 800,000 hectares (8,000 square kilometers), an area almost as much as Umbria . The fires were also fueled by high temperatures: Sunday in Los Angeles County was 49.4 ° C, the highest ever recorded in the county.
In Washington state on Wednesday, a one-year-old boy died and his parents were badly burned while trying to escape the “Cold Springs” fire. One of the hardest hit areas in the state is the railway town of Malden where, on Tuesday afternoon, most of the houses were destroyed, including the town hall, post office, library and fire station. Nearly 20,000 hectares have been burned across the state.
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