'Evacuate now:' Wildfires grow in Oregon as 500K flee
Source: AP
By GILLIAN FLACCUS and ANDREW SELSKY
PHOENIX, Ore. (AP) — Deadly wildfires in heavily populated northwest Oregon were growing, with hundreds of thousands of people told to flee encroaching flames while residents to the south tearfully assessed their losses.
People evacuated statewide because of fires had climbed to an estimated 500,000 — more than 10 percent of the 4.2 million people in the state, the Oregon Office of Emergency Management reported late Thursday.
One fire approached Molalla, triggering a mandatory evacuation order for the community of about 9,000 people located 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Portland. A police car rolled through the streets with a loudspeaker blaring “evacuate now.”
inmates were being moved from a women’s prison less than a mile from Interstate 5 in Portland’s southern suburbs “out of an abundance of caution,” the Oregon Department of Corrections said.
Dora Negrete is consoled consoled by her son Hector Rocha after seeing their destroyed mobile home at the Talent Mobile Estates, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020, in Talent, Ore., after wildfires devastates the region. (AP Photo/Paula Bronstein)
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is when our people, forests and wildlife are consumed by scorching to ashes. This will continue under the present situation.
Bigotry, greed, stupidity and many many more descriptions of the failures of the administration is to blame.
The orange one just wants to rake the forest floors. he is the main cause of the failures in these wildfire infernos.
January can't come soon enough.
