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Seven homes were lost in the Chuweah Creek Fire at Nespelem, Washington on July 12–13, which caused evacuation of the town and burned over 10,000 acres (4,000 ha). [44] [45] The fire grew to 22,900 acres by July 15, [46] and over 37,000 acres by July 16; the town of Keller, Washington was also evacuated. [47] [48] The fire was 97% contained ...
Fire season officially began on April 15. [2] Training of state fire crews was conducted in May, as well as training of Washington National Guard in helitack insertion for fire crews. [3] On the morning of August 1, smoke from BC fires pushed into the Seattle area, rapidly making Mount Rainier invisible on a cloudless day. [4]
Fires included the Nakia Creek Fire in Southwest Washington and one on private timberland near Loch Katrine in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness 30 miles east of Seattle. [18] [19] Flames from the Loch Katrine fire could be seen from Seattle. [20] On October 18 and 19, due to wildfire smoke, Seattle had the worst air quality of any major city in the ...
The Tunnel Five continues to spread rapidly in Skamania County, now burning more than 300 acres in southern Washington state. The wildfire has forced residents to evacuate and threatens to destroy ...
The storms pushing across Central California caused some houseboats to come unmoored at the Lake Kaweah Marina, damaging several of them. Houseboats at Lake Kaweah damaged, submerged under water ...
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The 2021 KNP Complex Fire was a large wildfire in Sequoia National Park and the Sequoia National Forest in Central California's Tulare County.After lightning ignited the Paradise and Colony fires in the southern Sierra Nevada on September 9, the twin blazes combined into the Complex and burned a total of 88,307 acres (35,737 hectares).
By August 24, the fire had grown to 256,657 acres (103,865 ha), [32] surpassing the Carlton Complex fire of 2014 to become the largest wildfire complex in Washington state history. [25] By August 28 "at least 45 primary residences, 49 cabins and 60 outbuildings [were] destroyed in the Okanogan complex fires."