UPDATE!! California And Oregon Residents Describe Apocalyptic Landscapes As Wildfires Rage!!

For millions of people living in California and Oregon, Sept. 9, 2020, was the day the sun didn’t rise.

Smoke from a record-breaking spate of wildfires burning across the West shrouded the sky, obliterating some familiar landmarks and casting others in a dim, eerie orange-yellow glow.


In the foothills and mountains from Washington state to nearly the Mexican border, firefighters continued their desperate battle to contain the flames and rescue people trapped behind fire lines or, as in the case of Medford, Oregon, or Oroville, California, to help evacuate cities and towns.

In California, at least 32 major fires were burning as of Wednesday afternoon and more than 64,000 people were under an evacuation order. As of Wednesday, CalFire was reporting seven confirmed deaths as a result of the blazes. Officials warned that the death toll would likely climb.

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BREAKING!! LIVE video!! California heat wave at DANGER levels!! "Kiln-like!!" hundreds evacuated by air due to wildfires!! Post updates here

Sunday will be one of the hottest days in recent memory across much of California, the day after scorching temperatures set scores of records and intensified destructive wildfires erupting in the state.

Heat and red flag warnings are in effect statewide into the coming week as the heat will continue to fuel the fires already burning and could cause any new blazes to rapidly grow out of control.

The most serious wildfire situation developed with the Creek Fire in the Sierra National Forest, about 290 miles north of Los Angeles, which was first detected Friday night and rapidly grew to at least 45,500 acres by Sunday morning.

That fire trapped about 1,000 people near Mammoth Pool reservoir as flames crossed the San Joaquin River, including about 150 people who became stranded at a boat launch, the Associated Press reported.





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