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   From: yourdime@outlook.com   
      
   BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Powerful winds and hundreds of lightning strikes from   
   thunderstorms rattled eastern Oregon and Idaho Wednesday afternoon,   
   cutting power and stoking fires, including one in Oregon that is already   
   the largest active blaze in the nation.   
      
   The Durkee Fire, burning near the Oregon-Idaho border about 130 miles (209   
   kilometers) west of Boise, Idaho, caused the closure of a stretch of   
   Interstate 84 again Wednesday. Amid rapidly forming storms in the   
   afternoon, the blaze crossed the interstate near the town of Huntington,   
   home to about 500 people. It also merged with the Cow Valley Fire, another   
   large blaze that had been burning nearby, Gov. Tina Kotek said.   
      
   “The wildfires in Eastern Oregon have scaled up quickly,” Kotek said in a   
   news release Wednesday evening, calling it a dynamic situation. “We are   
   facing strong erratic winds over the region that could impact all fires.   
   Rain is not getting through. Some communities do not have power.”   
      
   https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/oregon-fire-is-the-largest-   
   burning-in-the-us-officials-warn-an-impending-storm-could-exacerbate-it/   
      
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