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A line of vehicles filled with people fleeing the wildfires in Clackamas County can be seen in Oregon City on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. (KATU)

About 500,000 Oregonians forced to flee homes (KATU)

About 500,000 Oregonians forced to flee homes (KATU)

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Sandy Fire District Chief{ }Phil Schneider. (KATU)<p></p>

Dora Negrete holds her dog Scoovy, standing by her destroyed mobile home at the Talent Mobile Estates as wildfires devastate the region on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020 in Talent, Ore. (AP Photo/Paula Bronstein)

The Reyes family looks at the destruction of their home at Coleman Creek Estates mobile home park in Phoenix, Ore., Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. The area was destroyed when a wildfire swept through on Tuesday, Sept. 8. (AP Photo/Paula Bronstein)

Jon Marshall looks through the debris of his home among the at Coleman Creek Estates mobile home park in Phoenix, Ore., Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. The area was destroyed when a wildfire swept through on Tuesday, Sept. 8. The Marshalls lived at the park for 21 years. (AP Photo/Paula Bronstein)

Dora Negrete, right, and her husband Marcelino Rocha, left, and son Hector Rocha console each other after seeing their destroyed mobile home at the Talent Mobile Estates as wild fires devastate the region on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020 in Talent, Ore. (AP Photo/Paula Bronstein)

Maria Centeno from Mexico, reacts after seeing her destroyed mobile home at the Talent Mobile Estates as wildfires devastate the region on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020 in Talent, Ore. (AP Photo/Paula Bronstein)

The Reyes family looks at the destruction of their home at Coleman Creek Estates mobile home park in Phoenix, Ore., Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. The area was destroyed when a wildfire swept through on Tuesday, Sept. 8. (AP Photo/Paula Bronstein)

Maria Centeno, right, from Mexico, is consoled by her neighbor Hector Rocha after seeing their destroyed mobile homes at the Talent Mobile Estates, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020, in Talent, Ore., after as wildfires devastate the region. (AP Photo/Paula Bronstein)

Heather Marshall stands by the destruction of her home at Coleman Creek Estates mobile home park in Phoenix, Ore., Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. The area was destroyed when a wildfire swept through on Tuesday, Sept. 8. The Marshalls lived at the park for 21 years. (AP Photo/Paula Bronstein)

Maria Centeno, right, from Mexico, is consoled by her neighbor Hector Rocha after seeing their destroyed mobile homes at the Talent Mobile Estates, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020, in Talent, Ore., after as wildfires devastate the region. (AP Photo/Paula Bronstein)

In a photo provided by Christian Gallagher, a street in West Linn, Ore., is shrouded by smoke from wildfires, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. (Christian Gallagher via AP)

Jerry Walker, who fled his apartment in Phoenix, Ore., in his pajamas, views the Coleman Creed Estates mobile home park Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. He doesn't know if his apartment complex made it and he was there to check on the business that he works at, a food cart. The mobile home park behind him that is destroyed is Coleman Creek Estates.(AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

Dora Negrete is consoled consoled by her son Hector Rocha after seeing their destroyed mobile home at the Talent Mobile Estates, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020, in Talent, Ore., after wildfires devastates the region. (AP Photo/Paula Bronstein)

Buildings are engulfed in flames as a wildfire ravages the central Oregon town of Talent near Medford late Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. (Kevin Jantzer via AP)

A sign that reads "Heart broken" is displayed in front of a destroyed vehicle at Coleman Creek Estates mobile home park in Phoenix, Ore., Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. The area was destroyed when a wildfire swept through on Tuesday, Sept. 8. (AP Photo/Paula Bronstein)

A charred statue sits among the destruction at Coleman Creek Estates mobile home park in Phoenix, Ore., Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. The area was destroyed when a wildfire swept through on Tuesday, Sept. 8. (AP Photo/Paula Bronstein)

The interior of a vehicle is melted among the ruins of the Coleman Creek Estates mobile home park in Phoenix, Ore., Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. The area was destroyed when a wildfire swept through on Tuesday, Sept. 8.. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

Catherine Shields, of Silverton, Ore., leads her horse Takoda under smoky skies, on the Oregon State Fairgrounds, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, in Salem, Ore. Shields evacuated the horse and other animals from her home on Tuesday, as a wildfire threatened. Hundreds of horses have been brought to the fairgrounds in Salem by people fleeing the fires, along with llamas, goats and other animals. The Red Cross is helping people at the fairgrounds, which has been turned into an evacuation center. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)

A Red Cross worker takes details from newly arrived evacuees at the parking lot of the Oregon State Fairgrounds in Salem, Ore., Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. Red Cross spokesman Chad Carter said 600 evacuees had checked in by early Tuesday afternoon to the site, one of at least 10 fire evacuation centers in Oregon set up by the organization. High winds kicked up wildfires across the Pacific Northwest on Tuesday, burning hundreds of thousands of acres, mostly destroying the small town of Malden in eastern Washington state and forcing evacuations and highway closures in Oregon. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)

Jonathan Thompson of the Keizer, Oregon, Chamber of Commerce delivers donated bottled water on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, to the Oregon State Fairgrounds in Salem, which is now an evacuation center as wildfires threaten towns in Oregon. High winds kicked up wildfires across the Pacific Northwest on Tuesday, burning hundreds of thousands of acres, mostly destroying the small town of Malden in eastern Washington state and forcing evacuations and highway closures in Oregon. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)

Penny Spaziani in Gladstone{ }

Jen Wagner in Mulino

Jen Wagner in Mulino

LeeAnne Colson in Oregon City

Darkness during the day when thick smoke descended upon the city of Estacada on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. The city was under Level 3 -- GO NOW -- evacuation orders. (KATU)

Smoke from a wildfire burning in Clackamas County, Oregon billows into an apocalyptic-looking sky Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. (KATU/Chopper 2)

A man looks through the burned remains of a Lyons, Oregon home Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020 destroyed by the 132,000-acre Santiam Fire. (KATU)

The charred remains of Denise Moyle's home and property in Lyons, Oregon on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020 destroyed by the 132,000-acre Santiam Fire. (KATU)

The 132,000-acre Santiam Fire left a path of devastation through Lyons, Oregon as seen here Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. (KATU)

The charred remains of Denise Moyle's home and property in Lyons, Oregon on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020 destroyed by the 132,000-acre Santiam Fire. (KATU)

Denise Moyle (center) stands next to the smoldering remains of her home and property in Lyons, Oregon on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020 destroyed by the 132,000-acre Santiam Fire. (KATU)

The remains of a Lyons, Oregon home Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020 destroyed by the 132,000-acre Santiam Fire. (KATU)

A man looks through the burned remains of a Lyons, Oregon home Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020 destroyed by the 132,000-acre Santiam Fire. (KATU)

Josh Hohman of Estacada attaches sprinklers to his chimney Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020 as a major wildfire threatens the town. (KATU)

This photo taken from the home of Russ Casler in Salem, Ore., shows the smoke-darkened sky well before sunset at around 5 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. Strong winds and high temperatures continued to fuel catastrophic fires in many parts of Oregon on Wednesday, forcing thousands of people to flee from their homes and making for poor air quality throughout the West. Huge wildfires also continued to grow in neighboring Washington state. (Russ Casler via AP)

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