The biggest recorded blaze in Californian history -- the August Complex Fire -- has ripped through 746,000 acres of dry vegetation in the state's north, as multiple fires combined under high temperatures and strong, dry winds. READ:
FRESNO, California - More than 20,000 firefighters from across the United States on Friday battled sprawling deadly wildfires up and down the West Coast -- a wave of infernos that have forced more than half a million people to flee their homes.
But it is just one of around 100 large fires on the US West Coast, and other rapidly growing blazes closer to populated areas have proven more deadly."We are at a complete loss for words right now," Bobbie Zedaker told the San Francisco Chronicle, after DNA tests proved her missing 16-year-old nephew Josiah Williams was among those killed.
Police went door to door to make sure that residents were evacuating the city of Molalla, marking their driveways with spray paint to show they had left. Humidity is expected to rise as temperatures cool through to next week, providing some relief, Cal Fire said.
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