Scale of devastation shocks US city's fire-seasoned residents

A wildfire has torn through Spokane, Washington, leaving even residents used to fire season stunned by the scale of the damage. One resident told the BBC she realized the danger when the flames jumped the river. Spokane sits in the fire-prone Inland Northwest, where dry summers regularly fuel major wildfires.

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