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'Like a bomb' - winds fuel destructive Northwest blazes

by Associated Press
| September 10, 2020 12:03 AM

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Wildfires fanned by high winds burned hundreds of thousands of acres in the Northwest, mostly destroying a small town in eastern Washington state and causing evacuations, power outages and highway closures in Oregon.

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