Fifteen dead and hundreds of thousands evacuated by fires in the western United States

Dozens of wildfires along the entire

have claimed the lives of at least 15 people in recent hours, while hundreds of thousands remain evacuated in the states of

,

and

.

The fatalities, which the different local authorities have been reporting throughout this Thursday, are

in Washington state and

, as well as a third person in Oregon and eleven others in California.

For its part, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) has reported that the

fire

, one of the many burning these days in the state, is now officially the largest ever recorded in its history recent.

The worst year in its history

The fire, which is advancing in the

(North), was declared on August 17 after a lightning strike, since which date it has destroyed 190,700 hectares, has claimed the life of one person and, so far, firefighters have only managed to contain it by 24%.

It is the latest record that is breaking an extremely bad season in terms of fires in the state, since

(900,000 hectares), despite the fact that we are only in the middle of September.

In recent times, the worst time for the fires in California had used to be October and November - months of extreme dryness - so if the trend continues, the worst is yet to come, something that keeps authorities on edge of the state.

The whole west coast, affected

In addition to

, the other two states on the west coast of the United States,

and, above all, Oregon, are also experiencing a wave of fires these days due to the intense heat experienced last weekend (in which in many places the long exceeded 40 degrees Celsius) and dryness.

In

, the Almeda Drive fire has evacuated hundreds of thousands of people in the south of the state (including the entire population of Medford of 85,000) and has destroyed more than 600 homes, while about 360 kilometers to the south Already in California, the

fire

has forced another 20,000 to evacuate.

This latest fire is affecting an area that has already suffered the devastating effects of the Camp fire in 2018, the deadliest in the history of the state, which claimed the lives of 85 people and almost completely engulfed the town of Paradise.

With no end in sight

In addition to the heat and dryness, the strong winds that have blown in the last few hours are spreading the fires at high speed and

, and they are not expected to let up in the immediate future.

It is also the winds that are helping to cover the skies of the entire region with smoke, and on Wednesday they left unheard images in the

area

, as the smoke mixed with the fog and dyed the sky a intense orange like never seen before.

The large number of active fires and the fact that they are taking place in so many different places at the same time is depleting the resources of the fire brigades, which usually turn to the help of other jurisdictions when they are faced with a large fire, something that is now proving very complicated.

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