Fire scientist Jennifer Balch says that conventional firefighting alone cannot get ahead of wildfires. “We've essentially built a nightmare into flammable landscapes, made more vulnerable because of climate change,” she tells smerconish.
"You just never believe it's all going to go up in flames," one southern Oregon resident told CNN affiliate KOBI."It's a lot to handle."The victims include a 1-year-old boy in Washington state and a teen in Oregon, who in his last moments huddled his dog inside a car that was engulfed in flames.
'It looks like the apocalypse:' See wildfire smoke turn San Francisco's sky orange 01:2080% of buildings in eastern Washington town destroyedMeanwhile, the past five days in Washington have made for the state's second worst fire season in history, the governor said Friday. Sixteen major fires were burning in the state as of Friday. "These are not just wildfires, they are climate fires and we cannot and we will not surrender our state," Gov.
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