University of Alaska (Fairbanks) firefighting students Preston Roberts, back, and Ben Schrage send up a cloud of steam as they douse a hotspot left from a wildfire Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015, in Chelan, Wash. Sixteen large wildfires are burning across central and eastern Washington, covering more than 920 square miles. More than 200 homes have been destroyed and more than 12,000 homes and thousands of other structures remain threatened. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) (Elaine Thompson / AP)
A wildfire burns behind a home Aug. 20, 2015, in Twisp, Wash.
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Smoke rises from a wildfire approaching Twisp, Wash., on Aug. 19, 2015.
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A fire-retardant airplane passes in front of the sun turned orange with smoke as a wildfire burns near Twisp, Wash. on Aug. 19, 2015.
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Firefighters and Washington National Guard soldiers work to extinguish hot spots on a hillside as they fight the First Creek Fire on Aug. 19, 2015, near Chelan, Wash.
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Remains from a burned structure sit along State Route Alt. 97 outside Chelan, Wash., on Aug. 17, 2015.
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A Chelan County Public Utility District worker walks past a burned truck along State Route Alt. 97 outside Chelan, Wash., on Aug. 17, 2015.
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A helicopter used for fighting wildfires flies above the Columbia Fiver outside Chelan, Wash., on Aug. 17, 2015.
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A partially melted swing set sits next to a burned structure outside Chelan, Wash., on Aug. 17, 2015.
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Big wildfires threatened the Lake Chelan resort region of central Washington on Aug. 17, 2015, after driving away tourists, destroying a warehouse filled with nearly 2 million pounds of apples and forcing thousands of residents to flee.
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Trevor Cartwright catches a zucchini thrown by Fruitland Service Station owner Kathy Benson to take along with other supplies to firefighters on Aug. 16, 2015.
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MaryAnn Rieckers, of Fruitland, Wash., kisses Pixie the goat Aug. 16, 2015. Pixie is one of the hundred or so animals she rescued from her Fruitland home as it came under siege from a wildfire near Coyote Canyon.
