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|  | A Hot Summer Gets Hotter Wildfires sweep across 10 western states, consuming more than 375,000 acres of wilderness
The Virginia Lakes wildfire burns southeast of Okanogan, Wash., earlyWednesday morning, Aug. 15, 2001. The fire had burned about 27,000 acres on the Colville Indian Reservation, destroying six homes and threatening another 50. |  |