ESTACADA, OREGON - Thousands of evacuees displaced by deadly wildfires across Oregon settled into a second week of life in shelters and car camping as fire crews battled on against the blazes and search teams scoured the ruins of demolished communities for those still missing.
Eight deaths have been confirmed during the past week in Oregon, which became the latest and most concentrated hot spot in a larger summer outbreak of fires across the entire western United States. The Pacific Northwest was hardest hit. Weather conditions improved early this week, enabling firefighters to begin to make headway in efforts to contain and tamp down the blazes.
At the height of the crisis there, some 500,000 residents - at least 10 per cent of the state's population - were under some form of evacuation alert, many forced to flee their homes as swiftly advancing flames closed in on their neighbourhoods. In the fire-stricken south-western Oregon town of Phoenix, uprooted families, many with young children, were sleeping in their cars and taking shelter at a civic centre or in churches, City Council member Sarah Westover said.
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