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10 Dead in California as Wildfires Spread on West Coast – The New York Times

By Thomas A. Smith

As wildfires raged up and down the West Coast on Thursday, officials in Oregon said that one of the most destructive fires, which incinerated whole neighborhoods in two towns, may have been deliberately set.

Three law enforcement agencies in Oregon, including the Ashland Police Department and the State Police, said they had opened an arson investigation for the Almeda Fire, which has been linked to at least two deaths and destroyed roughly 600 homes in the towns of Talent and Phoenix.

Charred residential streets in those communities now resemble moonscapes, and the fire was still raging out of control on Thursday.

via www.nytimes.com