Massive Wildfire in Washington

[bobabode]

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nation...721-story.html

"It wasn't the way the regular City Council meeting was supposed to begin, but Monday wasn't a regular day here in the charred wake of the Carlton Complex fire, which officials described as the most serious in the nation as more residents were ordered to flee.
"In fire dynamics in the U.S., of all the incidents in the country, you're No. 1," Rocky Opliger, one of four incident commanders charged with overseeing the conflagration, told more than 100 residents who gathered by the shores of the Columbia River for an evening disaster update."


"The fire, one of several in Washington state, has consumed about 240,000 acres and destroyed at least 150 homes, which will probably make it the biggest in state history, officials said Monday."

[HarmanKardon]

We have to get used to superlatives. The biggest wildfire ever, the biggest hurrican ever, the biggest whatever ever...

Global Warming, climate change. We are living in a hell we spur on ourselves. (Hope this expression is correct or at least understandable.)

[mpholland]

Most of my family lives in NE Washington. They are currently well out of the fire area, on the other side of the Columbia River, in Colville and Kettle Falls, but that whole part of the state is pretty much covered in smoke. They have taken some pretty intense photos.