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More than 60 wildfires were burning Wednesday across the US West as the country experiences one of its worst droughts on record.
Hardest hit by the fires were the coastal states of Washington,
Oregon and California - along with interior states like Nevada, Utah
and Idaho - according to the US Department of Agriculture's forest
service's daily fire mapping report. Nine hundred people have been
evacuated in the region, CNN reported.
More than two-thirds of the lower 48 states are suffering drought.
Temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius and higher make firefighting more
difficult. In Washington state alone, more than 100 square kilometres
of forest have been destroyed.
