At least one of the deadly infernos in the western US state is being treated as possible arson.
:"When you have a fire that burns through homes and businesses, you have open gas lines that are still spewing out natural gas, and those are burning."
Among the evacuees are more than 1,300 mostly female prisoners from the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville. One of the most destructive Oregon blazes, the Almeda Fire, which started in Ashland near the border with California, is being treated by police as suspicious. But rumours that fires in the Douglas County area were started by members of the left-wing"anti-fascist" or right-wing Proud Boys groups have been discounted by police., the pollution in the city on Thursday was ranked highest in the world, above Jakarta, Indonesia; Delhi, India; and Lahore, Pakistan.
Sam Elm and her partner, Micah, lived in Phoenix, Oregon. Sam shared her experience fleeing from the wildfire - and saying goodbye to their home - with BBC OS.
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