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Search for survivors is on as wildfires torch millions of acres in U.S. West

Search for survivors is on as wildfires torch millions of acres in U.S. West

DEBORAH BLOOM and ADREES LATIF  CREWS were to resume searching for the dead on Sunday among blackened ruins left by massive wildfires raging in three western U.S. states, where millions of acres have burned in weeks and "mass fatality" incidents are feared in Oregon. A blitz of wildfires across Oregon, California and Washington have destroyed thousands of homes and a half dozen small towns this summer, scorching a landscape the size of New Jersey and killing at least 26 people since early August. After four days of brutally hot, windy weather, the weekend brought calmer winds blowing inland from the…
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