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

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⁍ At least ten people have been killed in Oregon, according to the office of emergency management.

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⁍ There were 34 active fires burning in Oregon as of Sunday morning, according to the state’s office of emergency management website.

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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 southern Oregon, returned to Talent on Saturday after evacuating with her partner and 13-year-old daughter to find her house and neighborhood reduced to heaps of ash and rubble. Meanwhile, search and rescue teams, with dogs in tow, were deployed across the blackened ruins of southern Oregon towns on Sunday as smoldering wildfires continue to ravage the US west and officials warn of mass casualties. A blitz of wildfires across Oregon, California, and Washington 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 California, nearly 17,000 firefighters were battling 29 major wildfires as of Sunday, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. More than 4,000 homes and other structures have been incinerated in the state alone over the past three weeks. Drought conditions, extreme temperatures, and high winds in Oregon created the ‘perfect firestorm’ for the blazes to grow, Gov. Kate Brown told CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday. “This is a wake-up call for all of us that we’ve got to do everything in our power to tackle climate change,” she said.