More than 587,000 acres have burned in Washington state since Monday, topping the half-a-million acres that burned in the state's worst wildfire season in 2015.
Public Lands Commissioner Hillary Franz told Q13 News Wednesday morning that most of the state's resources are focused on the largest fire - the Pearl Hill-Cold Springs wildfire near Omak in north central Washington. That fire has burned 163,000 acre and is 0 percent contained. "This is one of the worst nightmares we can imagine," Franz said.
The agency is also helping with the fires in Thurston County, Bonney Lake and Sumner that forced more evacuations overnight, but one of the biggest fires being monitored is in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Lewis County.