Fires detected by MODIS throughout the world.  (Source: NASA fire map)

Washington, US
Thousands of firefighters have been working for weeks to control several large wildfires in Washington, from which two very large fires have merged, making the task ever more insurmountable.  Dozens of smaller fires also continue to burn, sparked from a lightning storm earlier this month. 

The fires are burning 143 square miles of acreage.  Residents of 161 homes in the area north of Ellensburg have been...
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