'I have never seen anything like this': Oregon towns emptied and confusion spreads amid fires

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3. The zone two is about ten miles from me now. Hoping for rain showers tomorrow.

I live on the bank of a major river, in the suburbs. The wooded island park just off shore (within hollering distance from me) caught fire Wednesday night. My daughter was the first to see it, and I called it in to the FD.

It quickly became a fire requiring five different Fire Departments, three fireboats, and three hours to get it under control.

Because the wind was blowing AWAY from us, I was able to sit in a lawn chair and watch huge fir trees consumed. About 1/5 of the island burned.

Houses on both sides of the river, and huge retirement homes on a bluff nearby, with woods in between. It could have caused many deaths if it got away from the fire fighters.

Picture at link.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ehhp5xCXYAAa-d6?format=jpg&name=small