Death toll in fires raging in West rises to nearly 30, with dozens missing

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Source: NBC News

Wildfires raging in the West have killed nearly 30 people with dozens of others missing and tens of thousands more in California, Oregon and Washington forced to flee their homes.

The death toll is likely to climb, with one Oregon official warning of a "mass fatality incident."

"There are going to be a number of fatalities, folks who just couldn't get warning in time and evacuate their homes and get to safety," state Emergency Management Director Andrew Phelps told MSNBC late Friday.

Several additional deaths in the fires in Oregon on Friday brought the total in the state so far to eight.



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1. Did Trump go golfing this weekend?

Has he said anything?

[C Moon]

7. I think he's visiting this weekend. Last time he did this, he was lecturing about using a shovel.

[Dem2theMax]

2. .

[catchnrelease]

3. Saddest one so far

For me the story about the 13yr old boy that was evacuating with his mom and grandmother is saddest. His mother had said to keep going to safety but it appears that he went back to help his 71yr old grandmother, who had a broken knee, get away. Found him at the wheel of the car with his dog in his lap, and grandmother in the car too. That just breaks my heart.

[link:https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/family-details-deaths-boy-grandmother-oregon-fire-72962865|

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4. Read this earlier today and could not

stop weeping. How does the Mom come back from this? Going to be a very long road.

I cared for my mom the last years of her life, and the Sophia’s Choice part, choosing between her own life and staying with her mom broke me. The son circling back, dying trying.

I told someone the story by phone and cried all over again. This one will haunt me, and all I did was read about it.

I cannot fathom the trauma, the depth of her inevitable PTSD.

[MustLoveBeagles]

5. no words

[ThingsGottaChange]

6. I have been crying about this for two days

The most heartbreaking thing I've seen in all my 65 years. Please, if you can, https://gf.me/u/yx54gk. I have no more words...