- Fires in California have burned 3.1m acres this year
- Hundreds of thousands forced to evacuate homes in Oregon
- Opinion: these explosive fires are our climate wakeup call
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says the fires devastating California and the Northwest shouldn’t be called wildfires, but “climate fires,” the Associated Press reports.
At a news conference Friday, the Democrat noted that the roughly 980 square miles burned in Washington in just the last five days amounts to the state’s second worst fire season on record, after 2015.
‘Where are you gonna go now?’ California evacuees ask
A handful of evacuees from the North Compelx have sought refuge at the Home Depot in Oroville. Some slept in their cars earlier in the week and several RVs remain in the parking lot.
