In Pictures: Wildfires across America
Wildfires have struck in various states across America in the past months. According to figures from the National Interagency Fire Center, almost 7 million acres have been scorched since January. Here are snapshots of the landscapes that have suffered from wildfires in the past week.
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Firefighters preparing to battle the Wolverine wildfire near Chelan, Washington, in this US Forest Service picture taken on Aug 16, 2015. Wildfires have destroyed 50 homes in north-central Idaho while a fire in north-central Washington nearly doubled in size, almost encircling the town of Chelan and forcing the evacuation of some 1,500.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Smoke rising from the TePee Springs fire in the Payette National Forest is seen in an aerial picture taken by the McCall Smokejumpers near Riggins, Idaho on Aug 17, 2015. The fire has burned 124,889 acres as of Aug 17, according the the US Forest Service.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Smoke and haze from the Northern California wildfires and other major wildfires across the Western US fills the skies as the sun sets over the southern Salt Lake Valley, outside Salt Lake City, Utah on Aug 17, 2015. The US Army has been asked to send 200 troops to assist the more then 29,000 civilian firefighters deployed throughout the West. This is the first time the Army has been called to provide troops to fight fires since 2006.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Thick haze, reportedly coming from wildfires burning in Northern California, covering downtown Oakland and the San Francisco Bay Area on Aug 17, 2015. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) extended its Spare the Air alert as it was rated as unhealthy for anyone with respiratory disease.
PHOTO: EPA
A handout photo made available by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) shows the Soda Fire Front, in Owyhee County, Idaho, on Aug 10, 2015. Air quality advisories remain in effect in the region, although fire activity has been moderate, according to officials on Aug 17.
PHOTO: EPA
A CL-415 SuperScooper firefighting aircraft, newly arrived to the Los Angeles County Fire Department on lease from the government of Quebec, drops water on the Warm Fire after sunset on Aug 16, 2015, in the Angeles National Forest north of Castaic, California. The wildfire has burned six structures and blackened 500 acres since it began on the afternoon of Aug 16.
PHOTO: AFP
Firefighters hosing down the smoldering ruins of a building at the Warm Springs Rehabilitation Center at the Warm Fire on Aug 16, 2015 in the Angeles National Forest north of Castaic, California. The wildfire has burned six structures and blackened 500 acres so far since it began this afternoon.
PHOTO: AFP
