Wired·4 min read·medium
Spokane Shows What the New Era of Wildfires Looks Like
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Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
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The Pacific Northwest is experiencing a record-breaking wildfire season characterized by extreme drought and heat. Officials are struggling to manage the scale of destruction and the displacement of thousands of residents, including vulnerable senior populations.
Nurses and volunteers were moving between the rows of cots around Robertson, making sure that the hundreds of evacuees—from the mothers with their babies to the elderly with their caretakers—had blankets and enough to eat. Just outside, the air was noxious with smoke “thick enough to burn your eyes,” she said.
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