Wildfires that have torched homes and forced thousands to evacuate are burning across 10 parched Western states, and the largest, in Oregon, is threatening California’s power supply. Nearly 60 large, active wildfires are burning from Alaska to Wyoming.
LOS ANGELES — Wildfires that torched homes and forced thousands to evacuate burned across 10 parched Western states on Tuesday, and the largest, in Oregon, threatened California’s power supply.National Interagency Fire CenterThe fires erupted as the West was in the grip of the second bout of dangerously high temperatures in just a few weeks. A climate change-fueled megadrought also is contributing to conditions that make fires even more dangerous, scientists say.
A fire that began Sunday in the Sierra Nevada south of Yosemite National Park exploded over 14 square miles and was just 10% contained. A highway that leads to Yosemite’s southern entrance remained open. Elsewhere, a forest fire started during lightning storms in southeast Washington grew to 86 square miles . It was 20% contained Monday.
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