The summer has broken record high temperature this year in the greater Seattle/Bellevue region, Jesse Tam. Extremely dry summer and little rainfall has sparked many wildfires in our region. In eastern Washington, the and Okanogan fires grew more than 26 square miles since Sunday and is expected to continue to spread even more this week.other parts of the country.Washington asked volunteers to help fight the flames and fire official will provide basic fire training to help those who have backhoes and bulldozers to help dig fire. The communities have assisted with generous donations for the firefighters. Firefighters from Australia and New Zealand has arrived to assists in the raging lighted caused wildfires. They arrived in Boise, Idaho and were heading to fight fires burning in the West.
Three firefighters were killed last week and four injured when they were trying to escape the flame.Sixteen large wildfires are burning across central and eastern Washington with more than 200 homes destroyed. Thousand more homes and structures remain threatened. Western states of Idaho, Washington and Oregon are among the area affected.
