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USA - Wildfires (ECHO 27 Jul 2024)
Pubdate: 7/26/2024 10:35:00 AM

Several wildfires have been burning across California, Washington and Oregon (western United States), since 17 July, prompting evacuations and causing damage.
As of 25 July, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reports five wildfires in Oregon that have been burning a total area of approximately 266,014 ha across Baker, Malheur, Grant, Harney, Gilliam, Morrow and Umatilla counties, resulting in 21 injured people and the prompt evacuation of a total of 3,189 people. A wildfire close to Chico city in Butte county in northern California has been burning an area of approximately 2,600 ha, 2,000 people have been evacuated and 1,500 houses have been threatened. In Washington a wildfire has been burning an area of 6,000 ha near the communities of Keller, Koontsville, and Seatons Grove, 60 homes have been evacuated and 210 houses have been threatened.
Over the next 48 hours, according to the JRC Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), the fire danger forecast is from very high to extreme in the affected areas.

(7/26/2024 10:37:07 AM - 7/27/2024 9:30:07 AM)

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