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The damage from forest fires is already very extensive. Many houses have been destroyed and other buildings have been badly damaged by the fires.
– The fire devastated central parts of the state of Oregon and where it struck nothing was left. “I’m exhausted and shocked,” Talent Mayor Darby Ayers-Flood told NBC News.
The city of paradise is threatened
The fire northeast of San Francisco in California threatened several communities, and strong winds have intensified the blaze, which has swept a 25-mile road through a parched mountain area.
The city of Paradise, which burned to the ground two years ago in the deadliest wildfire in California history, is under threat again. This has caused panic and chaos in traffic when residents try to leave the city.
Embers from wildfires light up the Bidwell Bar Bridge in Oroville, California.
The thick smoke stifled much of the activity in large areas of Northern California and thousands of people in the area near Oroville were asked to evacuate, the AP writes.
Almost a hundred fires burn
The so-called North Complex fire is one of twenty fires ravaging the state. Forecasters report that better weather conditions will soon help firefighters fight the overwhelming flames.
Oregon Governor Kate Brown said this could quickly become the largest loss of life and property in Oregon history.
“In the last 24 hours, the state of Oregon has experienced fires that have had unforeseen consequences for us,” he said at a recent news conference.
Brown tells Reuters that the fires have destroyed much of the cities of Blue River, Vida, Phoenix and Talent.
As of Wednesday, five states, with a total of more than 30 million residents, have “red” hazard levels: Washington, Oregon, California, in addition to Nevada and Arizona.
Nearly a hundred small and large fires are raging on the west coast of the United States.
In Washington, a larger area was burned in a single day than is normally burned in an entire year. Wildfires also forced people to flee Idaho, while the colder weather helped calm the fires in Colorado and Montana.
Since mid-August, California fires have claimed 11 lives, destroyed more than 3,600 buildings, burned spruce trees and old brush, and prompted the evacuation of coastal settlements, vineyards and the Sierra Nevada mountains.
