Wildfires burning across the western United States on Monday stretched local and national firefighting resources. Firefighters are responding to more than a dozen wildfires that are over 100,000 acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
Two were sparked over the weekend near Reno, Nevada — the Bug Fire and the Fred Mountain Fire — which have forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes.
Dozens of large fires
North of Reno, the overwhelming majority of the wildfires currently burning are concentrated in the Pacific Northwest, with over 30 in Oregon and over 20 in Washington. Hundreds of structures have been lost to blazes around Spokane. Nearby, in Idaho, 10 more fires rage and one more burns in Northern California, totalling over 3 million acres of active wildfires.
An additional 98 wildfires were reported in southwest Canada, the overwhelming majority of which are considered “out of control,” according to the British Columbia Wildfire Service.
The fires this summer have also taken the lives of several firefighters in Colorado and Utah…