US northwest wildfires force 65,000 to flee as hundreds of buildings burn in Spokane

Wildfires have torn through Spokane, Washington's second-largest city, destroying as many as eleven hundred structures and forcing sixty-five thousand people to evacuate. France 24 reports the fires, fueled by drought, extreme heat, and strong winds, prompted officials to call it the worst natural disaster in the city's history — though firefighters made progress against several blazes on Monday.

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