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10% of Oregon Has Been Ordered to Evacuate

A charred vehicle is seen in the parking lot of the burned Oak Park Motel after the passage of the Santiam Fire in Gates, Oregon on September 10, 2020.
A charred vehicle is seen in the parking lot of the burned Oak Park Motel after the passage of the Santiam Fire in Gates, Oregon on September 10, 2020. Photo: Kathryn Elsesser / AFP (Getty Images)

Roughly 10% of Oregon’s population has been told to evacuate because of the wildfires. In a news conference Friday, Gov. Brown said that dozens of people were unaccounted for. State emergency officials, per CNN, said that they were preparing for a “mass fatality incident.”

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