Oregon Governor Kate Brown extended an emergency declaration late on Tuesday, as she warned that fires in the state have burned through more than 230,000 acres
late on Tuesday: “Wind continues to fuel the wildfires, with devastating consequences across Oregon. People’s homes, lives & land are at risk. If you are in an evacuation area, please pay close attention & listen to local calls to evacuate — this can save your life & the lives of our firefighters.
” It comes as Labor Day weekend saw an escalation in wildfires across California, Oregon and parts of Washington, where the small town of Malden was destroyed by a firestorm that damaged 80% of its homes and key civic sites such as the library and city hall, ReutersImages and clips on social media show witnesses in Oregon under bright red skies and heavy smoke clouds, while some watchers noted that wildfires this ferocious were unprecedented in the state, which has seen evacuation ordersThousands of people across the West Coast are on standby to evacuate, while some have already been evacuated, including 214 who were evacuated by helicopter over the weekend as a result of the Creek Fire, which California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection says is still uncontained with “Some 1,450 Inmates across three prisons in Salem, one of the Oregon towns heavily threatened by the fires, have been
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