When Brett Myers drove into the town of Maldon, Washington a couple days ago, there were

more houses on fire than not.

Smoke to where you can't see in front of you.

Fire, encroaching right on the road.

Houses that when you drove by the inside of your vehicle would heat up 30 or 50 degrees

just instantly.

The intensity of that fire was pretty close to a war zone.

Maldon's a small town in the eastern part of the state.

Fire is the county sheriff there and on Labor Day, the ground was dry.

Winds close to 50 miles an hour.

They still don't know how exactly the fire started or where it came from.

But in a matter of hours, Meyer says about 80% of the town was gone.

From the time it got to the city limits, to the time it was through the town, maybe

two and a half hours.

And then the fire burned the rest of the night.

But most of the homes that caught on fire caught in fire within two to three hours, that

was very close.

Meanwhile in Oregon, we have never seen this amount of uncontained fire across our state.

Governor Kate Brown said fires there were also fueled by strong winds.

By Thursday evening, state officials estimated 500,000 people had been forced to evacuate

their homes.

That's 10% of the population.

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