Wildfires have burned a combined area the size of Delaware and Rhode Island -- and then some

CNN provided an update on wildfires that have burned nearly three million acres so far this year, an area the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined and then some, as Oregon's Bootleg Fire burned on 413,400 acres, destroying 161 residences and 247 outbuildings.

Wildfires have burned a combined area the size of Delaware and Rhode Island -- and then some

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