On Monday, twin fires north of San Francisco burning just miles apart became the largest collective wildfire in state history after destroying more than 1,147 sq km (443 sq miles) of forest and rural land across an area nearly the size of Los Angeles.
Abandoned mineshafts around fires burning 12 miles north of Helena, Mont., are hampering firefighting efforts there.
— The massive wildfire that continued its surge Wednesday through eastern Arizona was sending burning embers miles downwind, igniting dozens of smaller fires that required the urgent attention of firefighters and raising the prospect of the fire greatly extending its 11-day run, the authorities said.
James said he had a pregame headache that he thought was caused by the smoke in the arena from the wildfire burning 80 miles north of Sacramento.
Our house and those of our immediate neighbors are the closest structures to the fire, which, as I write this, is still burning five miles away -- uncomfortably close to the same distance it moved on its first, intense day of rampage.
To the north, in Washington state, a 6,000 acre (2,400 hectare) blaze that erupted on Monday was burning 10 miles east of Walla Walla, a city of about 32,000 people, according to the U.S. Forest Service's InciWeb online fire information center. .
The fire is burning just 4 miles northwest of Ellensburg and 10 miles south of the Wenatchee National Forest.
It was burning about 40 miles from the Greenland ice sheet and about 90 miles northeast of the city of Sisimiut.
It was burning about 35 miles west of Yosemite National Park and had gotten within a mile of central Mariposa, officials said.
The fire was burning about 16 miles from Brookings, a coastal city near the California border, and about four miles from the tiny outpost of Wilderness Retreat, Mr. Baker said.
I walked 63.1 miles, burning enough calories to outweigh those consumed.
