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As many as 100,000 small salmon and other fish have been killed over the past week after a fire at a food warehouse in Washington's Lewis County sent vegetable oil spilling into a nearby creek.
The Washington Department of Ecology gave its latest count of the number of fish killed to Portland's KGW News, adding that the fire sent about 1,100 gallons of burning oil into the creek through a pipe in the warehouse.
Spokesman Chase Gallagher said Tuesday the scene in Olequa Creek appears to be a "100 percent kill for five miles" downstream, with officials unsure how many fish died "because the number is so high." Olequa Creek is a tributary of the Cowlitz River, and its Native American name means "where salmon come to spawn."
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