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Joe Copeland Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Northwest wildfires</h1>
                <h2><p>A firefighter died this morning and another was injured battling a wildfire near Sisters, The Oregonian reports. That  was one of numerous fires sparked by more than 1,000 overnight lightning strikes in the Oregon Cascades. The fires have forced the evacuation of more than 100 homes Douglas County. Gov.</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
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            <p>A firefighter died this morning and another was injured battling a wildfire near Sisters, <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2013/08/man_dies_2_firefighters_injure.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org#incart_m-rpt-2">The Oregonian reports</a>. That  was one of numerous fires sparked by more than 1,000 overnight lightning strikes<a href="http://www.kval.com/news/local/Lightning-starts-dozens-of-new-fires-in-Oregon-Cascades-217964731.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org"> in the Oregon Cascades</a>. The fires have forced the evacuation of more than 100 homes Douglas County. <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2013/07/wildfires_cause_state_of_emerg.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Gov. John Kitzhaber had declared a state of emergency </a>Tuesday for Josephine and Douglas counties in southwest Oregon, while central, north-central and far eastern regions of the state brace for more lightning in the rest of the week. In central Washington, the Colockum fire southeast of Washington has destroyed four homes, forced new evacuations and reached the edge of a wind farm, <a href="http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2013/aug/01/fire-crews-heading-to-kittitas-county-to-corral-colockum-tarps-fire/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">the Wenatchee World </a>reported. None of the power-generating facility's equipment had been damaged when a reporter talked to a Puget Sound Energy spokesperson during the morning.</p>
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A firefighter died this morning and another was injured battling a wildfire near Sisters, The Oregonian reports. That was one of numerous fires sparked by more than 1,000 overnight lightning strikes in the Oregon Cascades. The fires have forced the evacuation of more than 100 homes Douglas County. Gov. John Kitzhaber had declared a state of emergency Tuesday for Josephine and Douglas counties in southwest Oregon, while central, north-central and far eastern regions of the state brace for more lightning in the rest of the week. In central Washington, the Colockum fire southeast of Washington has destroyed four homes, forced new evacuations and reached the edge of a wind farm, the Wenatchee World reported. None of the power-generating facility's equipment had been damaged when a reporter talked to a Puget Sound Energy spokesperson during the morning.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi