• One firefighter confronts burning landscape with hose
  • Texas National Guard soldiers arrive in Houston, Texas to aid citizens in heavily flooded areas from the storms of Hurricane Harvey. (Photos by Lt. Zachary West, 100th MPAD)
  • A crew of Southern Baptists from California looks for items that survived fire in the Methow Valley, hoping to give homeowners some closure. (Photo by Marcy Stamper for the Methow Valley News)
  • Wildfire smoke obscures the view of the Space Needle and the skyline in a view from Seattle’s Kerry Park.
  • A firefighter uses an ignition tank to set underbrush on fire during a prescribed burn in Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest near Liberty, Wash. It is part of an effort to get rid of the dried out underbrush that fuels wildland fires. (Photo: Dan DeLong/InvestigateWest)
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