Helicopters rescue more people from wildfires as flames chew through bone-dry California
Flames incinerate a forest as the Creek Fire rapidly expands on September 8, 2020 near Shaver Lake, California.
Uncontrolled wildfires have raged across the US West, incinerating the Washington town of Malden and threatening communities in Oregon and California, driven by high winds and unprecedented heat over the Labor Day weekend. Firefighters and emergency responders searched on Tuesday for residents of tiny Malden, about 483 km east of Seattle, a day after a firestorm destroyed 80 percent of its homes along with the fire station, post office, city hall and library."The fire will be extinguished but a community has been changed for a lifetime. I just hope we don't find the fire took more than homes and buildings. I pray everyone got out in time.
The fire that destroyed Malden was one of the dozens of large blazes burning in Washington, Oregon, and California over the Labor Day Weekend, as temperatures in the western part of Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley topped 49 Degree C. The arrival of strong gusts after the Labor Day weekend's unprecedented temperatures saw most of California placed under weather warnings, with 14,000 firefighters battling 25 major wildfires across the country's most populous state.
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