Search on for Survivors as Wildfires Torch Millions of Acres, Trump to Visit California

Search on for Survivors as Wildfires Torch Millions of Acres, Trump to Visit California
A Butte county firefighter douses flames at the Bear fire in Oroville, Calif., on Sept. 9, 2020. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images
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Crews resumed searching for the dead and survivors on Sunday among blackened ruins left by massive wildfires raging in three western states, where millions of acres have burned in weeks and “mass fatality” incidents are feared in Oregon. President Donald Trump said he would travel to California to see the devastation first-hand.

A blitz of wildfires across Oregon, California, and Washington has destroyed thousands of homes and a half dozen small towns this summer, scorching a landscape the size of New Jersey and killing more than two dozen people since early August.