⁍ Dozens of wildfires have raged with unprecedented scope across more than 4 million acres (1.6 million hectares) in Oregon, California and Washington state since August.

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⁍ Ten deaths have been confirmed during the past week in Oregon alone.

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⁍ Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee slammed by Republicans for not visiting disaster areas, spoke from his home state of Delaware.

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– “If we have four more years of Trump’s climate denial, how many suburbs will be burned by wildfires? How many suburban neighborhoods will have been flooded out?” said Joe Biden, calling the president a “climate arsonist,” per Reuters. “I don’t think science knows.” Biden, speaking from Delaware, where he’s up for re-election, made his comments as California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has authorized federal disaster aid for both California and Oregon, pushed back against Trump’s claim that climate change is partly to blame for the region’s wildfires. “We come from a perspective, humbly, where we submit the science is in and observed evidence is self-evident: that climate change is real, and that is exacerbating this,” the Democratic governor said during a meeting with Trump, per the Washington Post. “We come from a perspective, humbly, where we submit the science is in and observed evidence is self-evident: that climate change is real, and that is exacerbating this.” Trump, meanwhile, met with firefighters and officials in California after Democrats blasted the Republican president for remaining mostly silent on the wildfires. “I think this is more of a management situation,” he said after landing in McLellan Park, Calif. “They have more explosive trees, meaning they catch fire much easier. But they don’t have problems like this. When you get into climate change, well is India going to change its ways? And is China going to change its ways? And is Russia going to change its ways?”