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DEVASTATION

Wildfire Wipes Out Washington State Town of Malden

Up to 80 percent of the homes and the post office were destroyed.

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Larry Frick

By Tracy Connor

Eighty percent of the buildings in the small Washington state town of Malden have been burned to the ground by a wind-whipped wildfire. “The entire town is gone. Everything from here to Pine City is gone. The scariest time of my life,” Larry Frick, one of the lucky few who still has a home, texted his brother on Sunday, according to KXLY. Even the post office in the rural community of about 300 people was incinerated, KREM reported. Three fires erupted in Whitman County at about the same time and spread quickly because of the dry conditions.

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