Flames appear on a hillside during the Elkhorn Fire near Red Bluff, California, U.S. August 31, 2020. Matthew McFarland/Unified Fire Authority/Handout via REUTERS.
GATES, Ore. (Reuters) - Intermittently heavy showers brought some relief to flame-stricken western Oregon on Friday, helping firefighters to further subdue deadly blazes that have ravaged much of the state and choked its air with smoke for the better part of two weeks.
Oregon was especially hard hit by scores of wind-driven wildfires that erupted all at once across the western United States earlier this month in the midst of catastrophic lightning storms, record-breaking heat and howling winds.
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