Reuters: More than a thousand residents in north-central Washington state fled their homes on Friday after a cluster of wildfires erupted around the town of Chelan, while fierce blazes blackened a swath of the drought-stricken U.S. West, officials said.
Firefighters were also dealing with wildfires in Idaho, Oregon, and Montana, while crews battling a wildfire near California's celebrated wine region north of San Francisco managed to draw containment lines around more than half of a 24,555-acre (9,940-hectare)......
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Firefighters fight blazes across U.S Northwest, California wine region
Posted by Reuters: Eric M. Johnson and Curtis Skinner on August 15th, 2015
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