In eastern Washington state a fire destroyed most of the farming town of Malden. The blazes tore through at least five communities in Oregon's Cascade mountain range as well as areas of coastal rainforest normally spared from wildfires. Police in Medford as well as in Douglas County to the north cautioned against rumours that left-or right-wing arsonists were starting the fires. Seeing as how over 99 of all US hops are grown in the Pacific Northwest, we wanted to see how the wildfires impacted the 2020 crops. So we're going to pursue it as a criminal investigation until we have reason to believe that it was otherwise." "We have good reason to believe that there was a human element to it. O'Meara said investigators were treating the origins of the Almeda fire as suspicious. Police have opened a criminal investigation into at least one Oregon blaze, the Almeda Fire that started in Ashland near the border with California, Ashland Police Chief Tighe O'Meara said. Oregon bore the brunt of nearly 100 major wildfires ripping across the western states, with around 3,000 firefighters battling nearly three dozen wildfires. Thousands more were displaced north and south in the neighbouring states of Washington and California.
The number of people under evacuation orders in Oregon alone climbed late in the day to some 500,000, about an eighth of the state's total population, a spokeswoman for the state Office of Emergency Management said. Thousands faced evacuation orders in the three states. In the past 48 hours, four people died from fires in California, while four others were killed in Oregon and a one-year-old boy died in Washington state, police reported. West Coast states on Thursday, destroying hundreds of homes and killing at least nine people, authorities said. Dozens of extreme wind-driven wildfires burned through forests and towns in U.S.
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