TALENT, Oregon - Ms Tracy Koa, a high school teacher in Oregon, was in her classroom last Tuesday preparing for the first day of school - which would be online due to Covid-19 - when her 13-year-old daughter called in alarm: A fire was coming, and they had to evacuate, now.
Within minutes, Ms Koa, her partner David Tanksley and her daughter Seneca had packed their car with camping gear and their cat and joined a crawling line of traffic to evacuate.It was one of hundreds in Jackson County, Oregon, which has a population of about 220,000, that were reduced to rubble this week by the Almeda Fire. At least 10 people have been killed in Oregon, and the death toll is expected to rise as conflagrations rage across the US West.
Some items had endured, although charred; the metal planter pot in the living room, the neighbours' red Adirondack chairs, a pile of blackened coins that had outlived a glass jar. Other precious possessions seemed to have evaporated, such as the crystal milk pitcher that belonged to Ms Koa's grandparents, where she had placed roses just the other day, and the photos of her mother who died of bone cancer in June.
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