Western US on Fire

Thirteen of the western states have fires burning, with California, Idaho, and Nevada combining for thirty-five of the seventy.

National Guard and Air Force Reserve units are active in most of the thirteen states, and North Carolina's has come west to aid them.

Near San Diego the Marines have been called out to join the fight against what has become a deadly enemy.

Weather conditions in most of the states are expected to get worse, with triple digits and dry winds expected to only enlarge the fires.

In Washington, the Taylor Bridge Fire has been thirty percent contained, after it destroyed more than sixty homes whilst burning nearly twenty-five thousand acres, in just a few days. Another fire near Cle Elum, Washington is nearly twenty-five percent contained.

The Trinity Ridge Fire in Idaho has burned nearly seventy-thousand fires. Residents of several towns are about to have to evacuate.

Along the Oregon California border, the Barry Point Fire has burned sixty thousand arces, whilst the Holloway Fire along the Nevada Oregon is well over 430,000 acres. The Rush Fire, in northern California is over a hundred thousand as well.

All totaled almost six and a half million acres have been burned, so far.