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Dozens of extreme wind-driven wildfires swept across U.S. West Coast states on Thursday (September 10), destroying thousands of homes and killing at least seven people, state and local authorities said.

In the past 48 hours, three people died from a lightning-sparked fire in northern California, while three were reported dead in Oregon and a 1-year-old boy died as his family tried to escape a blaze in Washington state, police reported.

In California, officials said some 64,000 people were under evacuation orders on Wednesday (September 9, 2020) while crews battled 28 major fires across portions of the most populous U.S. state.

About a third of those evacuees were displaced in Butte County alone, north of Sacramento, where a wildfire has scorched more than 200,000 acres since it erupted on Aug. 17.

The remains of three victims were found in two separate locations of that fire zone, according to Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea, bringing the total death toll from this summer's devastating spate of California wildfires to at least 11.

(Production: Mariana Sandoval)