More than 60 wildfires were burning Wednesday across the US West as the country experiences one of its worst droughts on record, dpa reported. Hardest hit by the fires were the coastal states of Washington, Oregon and California - along with interior states like Nevada, Utah and Idaho - according to the US Department of Agriculture's forest service's daily fire mapping report. Nine hundred people have been evacuated in the region, CNN reported. More than two-thirds of the lower 48 states are suffering drought. Temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius and higher make firefighting more difficult. In Washington state alone, more than 100 square kilometres of forest have been destroyed.
