• At least 20 people dead in California, Oregon and Washington
  • Washington governor: ‘We have to think of it as a climate fire’

Deadly wildfires in heavily-populated north-west Oregon continued to grow on Friday, turning the sky blood orange red and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee encroaching flames while residents to the south assessed their losses.

Portland on Friday was deemed to have the worst air quality of any major city in the world.

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