Firefighting pilot killed on Colorado's Gold Mountain Fire; record heat grips the Great Basin and northern Plains; Level 3 wildfire evacuations in Oregon, Washington, and California
A firefighting aircraft goes down on Colorado’s Gold Mountain Fire, killing the pilot, as the nation holds at Preparedness Level 4 with 44 uncontained large fires. All-time record heat blankets the Great Basin through the northern Plains, with Extreme Heat Warnings stretching into the upper Midwest and watches reaching the East Coast. Level 3 evacuations are in effect for Granite, Oregon, the Chelan area in Washington, and zones near California’s Elephant Fire, while flash flooding hits northwest North Carolina, Fort Worth, and east Tennessee, and Kilauea’s next fountaining episode is…
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