Photos: Washington state and the West Coast on fire, Sept. 10

Sep. 10, 2020 at 5:30 am Updated Sep. 10, 2020 at 3:42 pm

The ground still simmers on Thursday from the Cold Springs fire that swept through Okanogan County. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

Dora Negrete is consoled consoled by her son Hector Rocha after seeing their destroyed mobile home at the Talent Mobile Estates, Thursday, in Talent, Ore., after wildfires devastates the region. (Paula Bronstein / The Associated Press)

A car owned by Luke McKee and his wife, Haley McKee, that burned due to the Cold Springs wildfires that swept through Okanogan County. The fire destroyed their home, at right.
(Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

A burned home, Thursday, in Bridgeport, Douglas County, where the Pearl Hill fires came through Monday and destroyed several homes. Most of the homes were saved from the wildfires. North of the town is the Cold Springs fire. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

The Reyes family looks at the destruction of their home at Coleman Creek Estates mobile home park in Phoenix, Ore., just outside Medford, Thursday. (Paula Bronstein / The Associated Press)

Heather Marshall talks to her mother as she stands by the ruins of her home at Coleman Creek Estates mobile home park in Phoenix, Ore., Thursday. The Marshalls have lived at the park for 21 years. (Paula Bronstein / The Associated Press)

Jerry Walker, who fled his apartment in Phoenix, Ore., in his pajamas, views the Coleman Creek Estates mobile home park, Thursday. He was in the area to check on a food cart business that he runs. Walker said he did not know the condition of the apartment complex where he lives. (Gillian Flaccus / The Associated Press)

A charred pickup truck sits among the ruins of the Coleman Creek Estates mobile home park in Phoenix, Ore., Thursday. The area was destroyed when a wildfire swept through Tuesday. (Gillian Flaccus / The Associated Press)

Buildings are engulfed in flames as a wildfire ravages the central Oregon town of Talent, near Medford, late Tuesday. (Kevin Jantzer via The Associated Press)

Three chairs are all that remain at the Gates Post Office in Gates, Ore., on Wednesday. The post office was destroyed, along with several other buildings in the Santiam Canyon community. (Mark Ylen / Albany Democrat-Herald via AP)

Robert Pylant, 65, locates his safe in the rubble of his mobile home early Wednesday, Sin Gates, Ore. All the homes in Oak Park Trailer Park were destroyed, along with the majority of the homes along East Sorbin Avenue in Gates. (Mark Ylen / Albany Democrat-Herald via AP)

Smoky skies loom Wednesday over the Columbia River near Elmer City, Okanogan County, north of Grand Coulee Dam. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)

A firefighter from Boardman, Ore., hoses a yard east of Lyons, Ore., as the Santiam Fire burns on the opposite side of the Albany and Eastern Railroad Tracks. (Mark Ylen / Albany Democrat-Herald via AP)

Catherine Shields, of Silverton, Ore., leads her horse Takoda under smoky skies at the Oregon State Fairgrounds in Salem on Wednesday. People with animals sought shelter from the Red Cross at the fairgrounds. Shields evacuated her home with a menagerie of animals, assisted by neighbors and strangers. As smoke obscured the sun and ash fell from the sky, they helped load her and her partner’s three horses, a donkey, two llamas, a dozen sheep, geese, ducks, turkeys and dogs onto trailers and vehicles. (Andrew Selsky / Associated Press)

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