⁍ A blitz of wildfires across Oregon, California and Washington has destroyed thousands of homes and a half dozen small towns.

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⁍ At least 10 people have been killed in Oregon, according to the office of emergency management.
There were 34 active fires burning in Oregon as of Sunday morning, according to the state’s office of emergency management.

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– “We knew that it was gone,” Tracy Koa tells Reuters. “But then you pull up, and the devastation of just every home, you think of every family and every situation and every burnt-down car, and there are just no words for it.” Koa, a high school teacher in Talent, Ore., returned to her devastated town over the weekend after evacuating with her partner and their 13-year-old daughter. Her home was one of thousands destroyed by wildfires that have raged across Oregon, California, and Washington over the past few weeks. At least 10 people have been killed in Oregon, and dozens of people remain missing in three counties. In Talent, Reuters reports that search-and-rescue teams, with dogs in tow, were deployed across the blackened ruins of southern Oregon towns on Sunday as smoldering wildfires still ravaged US Pacific Coast states. The Almeda Fire has destroyed thousands of homes and a half dozen small towns this summer, scorching more than 4 million acres and killing more than two dozen people since early August. In Medford through the neighboring communities of Phoenix and Talent, an apocalyptic scene of charred residential subdivisions and trailer parks stretched for miles along Highway 99. Community donation centers popped up around Jackson County over the weekend, including one in the parking lot of Home Depot in Phoenix, where farmers brought a pickup truck bed full of watermelons and people brought water and other supplies. Farther north in Clackamas County, Dane Valentine, 28, showed a Reuters journalist the remains of his house. “This is my home,” he said. “Yep. All gone.” Down the road, a woman with a Trump 2020 sign pointed a shotgun at the journalist and shouted at him to leave: “You’re the reason they’s the reason they’s the reason they’s the world.”