Arson suspected in devastating US wildfire that forced 60,000 to evacuate

A wildfire tearing through more than three thousand two hundred hectares of forest near Spokane, Washington, has forced sixty thousand people to evacuate and destroyed seven hundred buildings, France 24 reports. Police have arrested a thirty-seven-year-old man on suspicion of starting the blaze. As of this report, firefighters have not yet contained it.

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