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Severe air pollution broke

artappraiser — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 02:16:09 +0000

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Severe air pollution broke Washington’s data-monitoring systems.

@ NYTimes.com LIve Updates. Sept. 13

Severe air pollution that has left people across the West Coast with sore throats and stinging eyes also temporarily broke the data systems that monitor air quality in Washington State.

Andy Wineke, a spokesman for the Washington Department of Ecology, said on Sunday that seven or eight monitoring points stopped producing data in recent days because automated quality-control systems rejected the high readings as unreliable.

“There’s some trigger in the quality-control check that said the sustained readings were high,” Mr. Wineke said. Officials were working to update the system to accept the data, so it could be published on the state’s air-monitoring maps.

The thick smoke has at times given cities an apocalyptic feel up and down the West Coast, blotting out the sun in some areas and raining ash in others. Cities from San Francisco to Seattle have recorded some of the highest air pollution readings on the planet over the last week [....]

the unimaginable might be

artappraiser — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 01:59:44 +0000

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the unimaginable might be coming-

“I drove 600 miles up and down the state, and I never escaped the smoke,” said @SenJeffMerkley (D-Ore.). “We have thousands of people who have lost their homes. I could have never envisioned this.” https://t.co/LohjwJvMIi
— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) September 14, 2020

TRUMP WANTS THE WORLD TO BURN

NCD — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 00:54:42 +0000

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TRUMP WANTS THE WORLD TO BURN!

Signs warning looters from

artappraiser — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 23:59:08 +0000

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Signs warning looters from yesterday:

Some of the many warnings residents have posted between Colton and Estacada. @fox12oregon pic.twitter.com/gOstHelXH0
— Devin Eskew (@Devin_Eskew) September 12, 2020

Former State Fire Marshal

artappraiser — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 23:57:20 +0000

In reply to Oregon’s state fire marshal,

Former State Fire Marshal quit in protest:

"I can't in good faith work in a system that's non-supportive to what I see as needing to be provided to our firefighters on the ground," former State Fire Marshal Jim Walker said. https://t.co/RlcIxt94uF pic.twitter.com/mZyeNRoCCd
— Statesman Journal (@Salem_Statesman) September 13, 2020

Currently on the outskirts of

artappraiser — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 22:45:35 +0000

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Currently on the outskirts of Mehama OR. National Guard military police are directing traffic and closing off dangerous areas to non-essential personnel. #OregonFires2020 #OregonWildfires2020 #OregonIsBurning pic.twitter.com/HKJAOuVw3t
— Justin Yau (@PDocumentarians) September 13, 2020

Absolutely horrific stories

artappraiser — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 01:07:46 +0000

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Absolutely horrific stories are starting to emerge from the fires https://t.co/CYp4sVDNDf pic.twitter.com/V5o7vtrVu6
— Brooke Jarvis (@brookejarvis) September 12, 2020

Oregon’s state fire marshal,

artappraiser — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 23:19:12 +0000

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Oregon’s state fire marshal, Jim Walker, has abruptly resigned from the job https://t.co/DwpQsp4254
— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) September 12, 2020

The Guardian is doing the

artappraiser — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 00:45:27 +0000

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The Guardian is doing the same (and has stories filed from the fire locations)

Guardian US supergroup (plus me) bylining this afternoon's big story on the fires in the western United States https://t.co/aXiPqSqXPp pic.twitter.com/RR3zaLScG2
— Jason Wilson (@jason_a_w) September 12, 2020

you oughtta check out this photo feature as well. devastating. https://t.co/eIK5ZStxJX
— Jason Wilson (@jason_a_w) September 12, 2020

this latest by him filed from Molalla, Oregon, is very good:

And here's my piece from earlier today about the state of Clackamas County and Portland https://t.co/C0vmZ3FaIu
— Jason Wilson (@jason_a_w) September 12, 2020

Separate NYTimes links:

artappraiser — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 00:10:45 +0000

In reply to "West Coast Wildfires Have Grown to a Staggering Scale"; NYTimes started Live Updates

Separate NYTimes links:

What the Hardest-Hit Places Look Like
View photographs from California, Oregon and Washington, where hundreds of thousands were under evacuation orders.

California, Washington and Oregon Fire Tracking Maps
by a team of 4: Maps showing the major fires that are burning in the western states.