Los Angeles, United States, Aug 2, 2026 (AFP) - Wildfires burn hundreds of homes in US northwest city of Spokane

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2026-08-02

Fast-moving fires roared through Spokane in Washington state overnight into Sunday, destroying hundreds of homes and prompting mass evacuations in one of the city's worst natural disasters on record. Photos and video posted by people driving through the city of some 230,000 showed house after house engulfed by flames or reduced to ash as wind-fueled blazes burned in hot, bone-dry weather. Officials in the city, located in the US Pacific Northwest......

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