Around half a million people in Oregon evacuated as dozens of extreme, wind-driven wildfires scorched U.S. West Coast states, destroying thousands of homes and killing at least 16 people https://reut.rs/2Fp953Z  1/3

Residents in northern California’s Bay Area woke up to a doomsday-like skyline, as smoke from the state’s wildfires traveled into the upper atmosphere and blocked the sunlight, casting an orange glow across the region https://reut.rs/2Zqpa07  2/3

Several Oregon communities, including the town of Detroit in the Santiam Valley, as well as Blue River and Vida in coastal Lane County, and Phoenix and Talent in southern Oregon, were substantially destroyed https://reut.rs/2DPQCNl  3/3