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Washington state fires destroy hundreds of buildings and force Spokane-area residents to evacuate
['The Associated Press']
News - Washington Examiner
SPOKANE, Washington (AP) — Some residents returned to devastated neighborhoods in eastern Washington state to find their homes leveled by wildfires that erupted across a parched landscape over the weekend, covering yards in charred debris.
The fires jumped roads and rivers and had burned about 12.5 square miles by Monday.
At least 390 square miles have burned across Washington, which has contended with severe drought and a paltry snowpack.
A lightning-caused fire that has burned over 530 square miles of grassland in western Idaho and eastern Oregon continued to grow Monday.
In central Utah, a blaze quadrupled in size over the weekend to nearly 109 square miles by Monday afternoon.