Original article from: Yahoo News
Officials in Oregon are preparing for a “mass fatality incident” as deadly wildfires continued to burn, the state’s emergency management director, Andrew Phelps, warned late Friday as firefighters continued to battle massive blazes.
“There are going to be a number of fatalities, folks who just couldn’t get warning in time and evacuate their homes and get to safety,” Phelps told MSNBC.
LEFT VIEWPOINTS
- While wildfires are a natural phenomenon, wildfire season is longer and more severe because of climate change.
- Record heat and dryer air are the results of humans adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
- Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution humans have increased the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by roughly 50%, and the rate of CO2 emissions is accelerating.