The city of Oregon received light showers after suffering from intensive fire. Intermittently heavy showers brought some respite to flame-stricken western Oregon on Friday, helping firefighters to further overcome deadly flames that have ravaged much of the state and choked its air with smoke for the better part of two weeks. Oregon was hard hit by scores of wind-driven wildfires that erupted all at once across the western United States earlier this month in the midst of catastrophic lightning storms, record-breaking heat and howling winds.
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“We lost everything, but we will start all over again,” said Bill Kesselring, 73, pointing to the spot where the log cabin he shared with his wife had stood on the outskirts of Gates, Oregon, a Cascade Mountain village 80 miles south of Portland. They had a cabin and garage house when they had just finished restoring, they were both reduced to charred rubble. Only the fireplace and chimney remained of the home. “It breaks my heart. You work hard all your life and then get hit with a disaster like this,” he told a leading daily.
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Unknown to the clear scope and extent of the blazes, Oregon’s ill-equipped firefighters initially fought for days to even keep pace with the blazes, before cooler, moister and less windy weather settled over the region, and reinforcements could arrive. By Thursday, officials in Oregon, Washington state and California said they were making steady progress suppressing the fires. Brightening the outlook further, much-welcomed rains doused Oregon on Friday, even as the tri-state death toll from the fires rose to 35.
