Massive Eastern Washington wildfires force 60,000 evacuations, destroy 600+ structures

60,000 people evacuated including Veterans Affairs hospital patients; residents fled homes with only smoke visible, uncertain if properties survived.

Across eastern Washington, tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes as wildfires consume land, structures, and the ordinary certainty of daily life. Near Spokane — a city of considerable size and history — at least six hundred buildings have been reduced to ash, while nearly four hundred square miles have burned statewide, part of a broader conflagration stretching across the American West. The fires arrive not as isolated disasters but as expressions of a deeper reckoning: a landscape under sustained pressure from heat, wind, and drought, and a firefighting system stretch

Massive Eastern Washington wildfires force 60,000 evacuations, destroy 600+ structures

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