Wildfires Ravage West Coast Region
Wildfires continue to plague the West Coast region, with one small Oregon town nearly erased from the map.
Officials of Talent, Oregon told its residents to stay outside of city limits as there's scant electricity and it is not safe.
The City Hall, the police department, and government buildings survived. However, neighborhoods and businesses were entirely affected by wildfires.
Talent Mayor Darby Ayers-Flood said that the fire attacked the main core of the town.
"Where it burned, it burned completely and totally. I'm exhausted and shocked by it," Ayers-Flood was quoted in a report.
Talent officials were hoping that the fast evacuation of its residents would keep deaths at zero.
Talent mayor said that they believe that almost everyone is safe, and the situation could have been far worse.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown issued a fire conflagration act for the first time in state history. This is due to at least 35 fires ravaging more than 300,000 acres of land in Oregon.
Brown said through Twitter that their number one priority right now is saving lives.
She added that the event could be the most significant loss of human lives and property due to wildfires.
Brown also said during a press conference on Wednesday that several towns in Marion, Lane, and Jackson counties have been "substantially destroyed,"
On the other hand, residents in the southern part of the city were ordered to evacuate on Wednesday as Almeda Fire made its way north.
Jackson County Emergency Management issued more evacuation orders as another wildfire named the Obenchain Fire was gaining strength north of Medford.
Rudy Owens, the spokesman for the Oregon Office of State Fire Marshal, said that the evacuation order is at level three, which is as serious as it gets.
Earlier reports said that the West Coast wildfires are making its way further east into central Canada and beyond.
Meanwhile, more than 10,000 acres of land since Saturday morning has been affected by the wildfires ravaging the West Coast region.
The fire intensified with the weekend temperatures that rose above 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
It is one of the 25 major blazes that firefighters are currently facing across California.
This year, more than 2.2 million acres have been burned by wildfires in the state, a record-breaking figure with another four months left in fire season.
Thom Porter, chief of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said that they have fires burning in the north part of the state down to the Mexican border, about 800 miles between the furthest distant fires.
Porter added that they were stretched across the landscape.
He said they have 150 million trees that died in the southern Sierra several years ago, fueling the Creek Fire.
Porter said that the Creek Fire is the biggest and most concerning fire to them right now.
Chris Barth of the Bureau of Land Management said that three firefighters were hurt, one critical. This happened while fighting the Dolan Fire in California's central coast.
Barth added that they suffered burns and smoke inhalation and were brought to a Fresno hospital.
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