The governor of washington calls it an unprecedented cataclysm. Danielle nottingham is on the fire lines. Danielle. Reporter charlie, heat and drought have combined to make this one of the worst worst fire seasons and here in Washington State, more than 330,000 acres have burned so far this year. All night and all day, huge flames tore across a fireweary Washington State as news spread about the three firefighters who lost their lives. This is really hard. Its not an easy thing at all. Reporter dan calvert is a baseball coach in twisp and knew one of the fallen firefighters overrun by flames. Nobodys going to be able to replace these kids. So reporter okanagan countys sheriff called it a hell storm with wind blowing in every direction. Residents of twisp and winthrop were ordered to evacuate. Lucinda mccalister is one of 1400 forced to flee. A plume went from one end all the way to the other other something that we havent seen ever. Reporter more than 10 fires are burning in okanagan c
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Trying to determine what set off a huge explosion at a high school, three construction workers were injured the force of the blast last night knocked out windows cbs 2 is life from the scene in marble hill, good afternoon. Were getting a better sense how bad the damage was from that explosion here last night you can see a lot of crews from the building city here, inspecting the damage but the schools chancellor says despite whats happened students will start class on schedule. Part of the 6 floor science classroom of John F Kennedy high school blown out, desks and computers untouched we know building just hours before. This is really scary, nothing to take lightly about, if this happened earlier, there was about 200 kids there at the school yesterday for summer bridge. Today, police turning away for that program. Telling me to go home. I make sure to kids dont come in thats what i was told, let me in. Investigators back at the school trying to isolate the cause of the explosion after 8
For his life. He loves to work and serve his community. He has been a great wonderful child. Reporter late thursday a procession to honor the men they call heroes as firefighters push on while taking time to remember the fallen. The government is spending 150 million a week on fire suppression. They say some 46 million homes or 40 of the population has a home at risk for a potential wildfire. Tamron and matt back to you. Thank you very much. Now to the other major weather story, danny, the first hurricane of the atlantic season. This is a small compact storm. Hurricane force winds only extend about ten miles out. It is moving over very warm water. Winds are at 85 Miles Per Hour making it a category 1 and should remain as category 1 for moves into an environment to rip it apart. By the time it makes its way through the Leeward Islands should be a Tropical Storm and then makes its way to Dominican Republic by wednesday morning. These are the upper level winds that will rip the storm apar