… of lightning strikes and wind that brought basically a force up from the east wind over the top of the Cascade Mountains, down every valley, and every valley was burning. We had six cities burned to the ground [during the Labor Day fires]. We had another six that were badly scorched. And when you saw those cities, it looked like a bomb had gone off. I mean, everything reduced to ashes. (01:48–01:54)
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Asserts that six cities were completely destroyed by fires during the Labor Day fires.
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