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“Smoke serves as a cap on the fire”.

Three firefighters — Tom Zbyszewski, Richard Wheeler and Andrew Zajac — died Wednesday when flames consumed their crashed vehicle in Washington state.

Both communities were in the path of flames from a cluster of wildfires dubbed the Okanogan Complex, which has doubled in size since Thursday to scorch some 161,000 acres (65,154 hectares) of brush and dry timber about 115 miles (185 km) northeast of Seattle. In all, almost a...

Almost 800 firefighters were trying to beat back the flames.

The Department of Natural Resources asked for volunteers to help battle the wildfires that have raged wild across Washington and Idaho.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has sent more firefighters to aid wildfire battles around the country.

“I want to say this is an unprecedented cataclysm in our state“, Inslee said. “Previous year was bad with 250,000 acres”.

Inslee and members of the state congressional delegation said Thursday in Chelan they would press Obama to make a speedy decision on the emergency declaration.

The Case Western Reserve University community is deeply saddened by the death of 2010 graduate Andrew Zajac, one of three firefighters killed Wednesday as wildfires spread in Washington state.

“We are saddened that a life with such promise has ended so soon and we will miss him deeply”, the statement said.

Firefighters brace for more high winds in the forecast through Friday that threaten to stoke wildfires burning across Eastern Washington. The sun rises in smokey air over a burnt-out ridge along Twisp River Road in Twisp, Wash.

“It was a hellstorm up here”, the sheriff told KXLY-TV.

Residents responded to the evacuation order with mixed enthusiasm.

The U.S. Fire Service identified three firefighters who were killed when their vehicle overturned while battling a wildfire in Washington state. There were 10 fatalities past year and 15 in 2012.

The B.C. Wildfire Service says the fire is now 50 per cent contained, but less smoke and better mapping reveal flames have scorched 42-square kilometres of bush.