China News Agency, San Francisco, September 11th. On the 11th local time, a wildfire that lasted for many days has caused many deaths in Oregon, the United States, dozens of people are missing, and thousands of buildings were destroyed.

Oregon officials stated that the state is preparing for a "mass fatal incident."

　　CNN cited data from the Oregon Emergency Management Department and the Lane County Sheriff’s Office as saying that the Oregon wildfire has caused at least six deaths.

The governor of the state Kate Brown said on the 11th that wildfires have burned more than 1 million acres of land in Oregon, leaving dozens of people missing.

Brown said that more than 40,000 people have been evacuated, and about 500,000 people are in different levels of evacuation areas.

Andrew Phelps, an official with the Oregon State Emergency Management Department, said the state is preparing for a "mass fatal incident."

The evacuation center was opened statewide in Oregon, and the Oregon Convention Center in Portland was also converted into an evacuation center.

　　The Associated Press reported that hundreds of firefighters are currently working hard to prevent the two fires from being merged near densely populated areas in Oregon.

According to reports, a large number of simultaneous fires in Oregon in just a few days were caused by climatic factors such as dryness, high temperature and super cyclones.

　　On the 11th, the Oregon state authorities announced that a man had been arrested on suspicion of two arson charges. He allegedly set fire in the southern part of the state on the 8th.

　　The New York Times reported that four prisons have been evacuated in Oregon.

Jennifer Black, a spokesperson for the state prison system, said that officials are aware of the potential spread of the new crown virus, and prisoners will "as far as possible with people in their facilities."

Black said: "We are taking all possible measures to mitigate this impact. As we said from the beginning, the establishment of prisons is not to achieve the best'social isolation'."

　　On the 11th, Portland was shrouded in smoke from the fire, and the air quality was the worst among major cities in the world.

According to data from Swiss air quality technology company IQAir, currently Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, and Vancouver are all included in the list of the five most polluted cities in the world.

　　CNN reported that since last month, wildfires in three states on the west coast of the United States have killed at least 26 people.

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