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By Ron Brackett
Sept. 11, 2020
Dozens of people were missing, thousands of structures destroyed and another person reported dead in Oregon as firefighters worked to gain control of more than three dozen wildfires burning across the state.
A fifth death was posted to the state's wildfire dashboard Friday, this one in the White River Fire burning in the Mt. Hood National Forest.
Meanwhile, at a news conference Friday Gov. Kate Brown clarified earlier statements that said 500,000 people - or 10% of the state's entire population - had been told to evacuate. Brown said that was the number of residents under any kind of evacuation advisory, to include an order or a warning to be prepared to leave.
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The North Complex Fire, one of 24 major blazes scorching California, has burned more than 394 square miles in the Plumas National Forest northeast of San Francisco.
Thousands of homes are thought to have been destroyed in the fire, and more than 22,000 structures are still threatened, including buildings in Oroville and Paradise.
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Oregon
Officials with the U.S. Forest Service pleaded with about 300 evacuees from the Holiday Farm Fire to not try to return to their homes after they tried to push through roadblocks near Sisters, Oregon, earlier this week.
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The wildfires have scorched more than 930 square miles in Washington, Gov. Jay Inslee said Thursday. The Cold Springs and Pearl Hill fires alone have burned more than 540 square miles in Okanogan and Douglas counties, according to the Seattle Times.
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