Pacific Northwest Burns as Drought Leads to Unprecedented Wildfire Activity

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By Colin PayneJul 28, 2014, 9:51 am72 pts
Nobody is fiddling while the Pacific Northwest burns in an unprecedented and devastating ‘ring of fire.’ Roughly 1 million acres of forest is currently ablaze in 21 separate wildfires in Washington and Oregon – the most the region has seen at any one time in recorded history. The fires were set off by the…

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