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		</div><p>Winds gusting as high as 50 mph fanned dozens of catastrophic wildfires across a large swath of Washington state and Oregon that rarely experiences such intense fire activity because of the Pacific Northwest’s cool and wet climate.</p>
<p>Oregon’s governor said hundreds of homes were destroyed.</p>
<p>Firefighters were struggling to try to contain and douse the blazes and officials in some places were giving residents just minutes to evacuate their homes.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Listen up: We&#39;re in an unprecedented fire event. Several significant, growing fires across the state continue to spread due to hot, dry weather &; high winds. Oregonians&#39; lives are at risk. Follow evacuation orders, try to reduce your smoke exposure – and take care of each other. <a href="https://t.co/t4ZZ7qIViX">pic.twitter.com/t4ZZ7qIViX</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Governor Kate Brown (@OregonGovBrown) <a href="https://twitter.com/OregonGovBrown/status/1303464756527931392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The fires trapped firefighters and civilians behind fire lines in Oregon and levelled an entire small town in eastern Washington.</p>
<p>The devastation could become overwhelming, said Oregon Governor Kate Brown.</p>
<p>“This could be the greatest loss of human life and property due to wildfire in our state’s history,” Ms Brown told reporters.</p>
<p>No fatalities from the Northwest fires have yet been confirmed, but Ms Brown said some communities have been substantially destroyed and “hundreds of homes lost.”</p>
<p>The scenes were similar to California’s terrifying wildfire drama, where residents have fled fires raging unchecked throughout the state.</p>
<p>But officials in the Pacific Northwest said they did not recall ever having to deal with so many destructive fires at once in the areas where they were burning.</p>
<p>The blazes exploded on Monday during a late-summer wind storm that saw gusts reach 75 mph.</p>
<p>Sheriff’s deputies, travelling with chainsaws in their patrol cars to cut fallen trees blocking roads, went door to door in rural communities 40 miles south of Portland, telling people to evacuate.</p>
<p>Since Tuesday, as many as 16,000 people have been told to abandon their homes.</p>
<p>“These winds are so incredible and are spreading so fast, we don’t have a lot of time,” said Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts.</p>
<p>Fires were burning in seven Oregon counties and rural and suburban homes miles away from Portland, Oregon’s largest city, were under preliminary orders to prepare for possible evacuations.</p>
<p>Three prisons were evacuated late on Tuesday and Ms Brown called the state’s blazes unprecedented.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Anything that can cause a spark can cause a disaster right now. </p>
<p>Be smart. Be safe. Do your part to protect our state. <a href="https://t.co/buTuL2kNmh">pic.twitter.com/buTuL2kNmh</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Governor Jay Inslee (@GovInslee) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovInslee/status/1303746945467387904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The Pacific Northwest is no stranger to wildfires, but most of the biggest ones until now have been in the eastern or southern parts of the region — where the weather is considerably hotter and drier and the vegetation more fire-prone than it is in the western portion of the region.</p>
<p>Fires in 2017 and 2018 crested the top of the Cascade Mountains — the long spine that divides dry eastern Oregon from the lush western part of the state — but never before spread into the valleys below, said Doug Grafe, chief of Fire Protection at the Oregon Department of Forestry.</p>
<p>“We do not have a context for this amount of fire on the landscape,” he said.</p>
<p>“Seeing them run down the canyons the way they have — carrying tens of miles in one period of an afternoon and not slowing down in the evening – (there is) absolutely no context for that in this environment.”</p>
<p>Fire crews were focusing on trying to keep people out of harm’s way and preventing houses from burning.</p>
<p>Officials said that containing the fires was a secondary priority on Wednesday, although there was concern some fires south of Portland could merge and become a much larger inferno that would be more difficult for firefighters to handle.</p>
<p>“We’re really at the mercy of the weather right now,” said Clackamas Fire District Chief Fred Charlton.</p>
<p>In Washington state, Governor Jay Inslee said more than 330,000 acres (133,546 hectares) burned in Washington in a 24-hour period — an area larger than the acreage that normally burns during entire fire seasons that stretch from spring into autumn.</p>
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