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The fast-moving Avery Fire has forced sudden evacuations in Wishram Heights and closed a major transportation corridor along the Columbia River Gorge.
A new Goat Fire triggered Level 3 evacuations in Kittitas County's Cle Elum Valley Sunday, adding a third active wildfire to a stretch of the Cascades already fighting the Three Queens and King fires.
A wind-driven wildfire near Malden grew to nearly 2,000 acres Saturday, triggering a Level 3 evacuation of a town that lost 80% of its homes to the 2020 Babb Road Fire and has rebuilt barely a fifth of them since.
A grass fire near Airway Heights grew to 3,500 acres in hours, jumping the Spokane River into city neighborhoods and prompting a statewide wildfire emergency, a burn ban through September, and Washington's first-ever "particularly dangerous situation" fire warning.
More than 300,000 people fled wildfires across France, Spain, and Portugal. Gironde and Madrid-region fires set modern records while heat near 42C threatened hard-won lines.