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For a month, large fires have raged in parts of California and Oregon. And there are still a couple of months left of what is called fire season.
Right now, more than 17,000 firefighters are fighting 27 major fires in California alone. To date, 25 people have lost their lives and more than 4,200 buildings have caught fire in the state. A total of at least 35 people have died as a result of the fires on the west coast of the United States.
“It’s even worse than the fires of 1910, and these fires will set a new standard for what we must do to protect ourselves in the future,” California’s chief fire chief Thom Porter said on Wednesday night Swedish time.
The fires are violent Also in the state of Oregon, where collapsed power lines have caused a host of fires along with those that started in other ways. Power lines falling to the ground have been a leading cause of fires in the western United States in recent years.
On Wednesday, the White House approved a request from the Governor of Oregon to declare a large part of the western state, and parts of central and eastern Oregon, a disaster area. This makes it easy for authorities to help thousands of people who are now homeless or have their property destroyed. 400,000 acres of land have been destroyed in Oregon alone, according to authorities.
Some exact information is available not in terms of how many houses have been destroyed in Oregon, but it’s hundreds, maybe thousands. The two Phoenix and Talent communities with a total of 11,000 residents were largely destroyed last week. The images have shown block after block of smoky house foundations.
According to researchers at the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, this year’s fires are 10 to 100 times more intense than since 2003.
“The scope and power of these fires is significantly greater than any other in the 18 years that we have been collecting data,” Mark Parrington of CAMS, part of the European Center, told CNN.
Measurements show that smoke also the east coast of the USA and has also crossed the Atlantic into Europe and will continue to do so.
The fire brigade has exacted a heavy price from rescue personnel, who in many cases work for days at a time.
“There is no end in sight,” firefighter Brian Wanhala told the San Francisco Chronicle.
