In mid-January, a campfire above Glendora, Calif. quickly roared out of control, fanned by Santa Ana winds and ongoing drought conditions, charring almost 2,000 acres and burning 15 structures.
Wildfires also burned in a few spots in northern California earlier this month, including one prompting the evacuation of Kimball Island in Solano County, and others in Marin and Humboldt Counties.
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However, a pair of fires this past week shocked us above and beyond those California events.
A pair of fires flared up along in the Oregon coastal range east of the town of Arch Cape, about 70 miles west-northwest of Portland on January 23. Fanned by winds estimated at 70 mph, the flames had burned around 120 acres as of January 24, according to a story by KGW News Channel 8 in Portland
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