Weary fire crews try to beat back raging flames. Exhausted fire crews worked on Sunday to beat back raging wildfires that have scorched millions of acres across three Western states, all while an anguished search goes on for the dozens of people who remain unaccounted. The fires have also cast a haze over a broad stretch of the West Coast, leaving the region with what officials have said was the worst air quality on the planet. “It is apocalyptic,” Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, said Sunday on the ABC program “This Week.” “I drove 600 miles up and down the state, and I never escaped the smoke. We have thousands of people who have lost their homes.

Source: New York Times September 13, 2020 13:26 UTC