The huge cloud of smoke is burning at least 6,700 hectares.

Burning tree trunks and destroyed buildings and structures can be seen in northern Oregon in the aftermath of the Marion County fire, as the state continues to fight dozens of blazes which have burned over 4 million acres of land.

Crews were to resume searching for the dead on Sunday among blackened ruins left by massive wildfires raging in three western US states.

Matt Manson stared at the burned-out corpse of his pick-up truck on Friday, which sat on a blackened driveway in front of a smoldering pile of rubble that once was his house.

Sixteen people have died and 500,000 have been evacuated as deadly wildfires have ripped through the US West Coast.

Hundreds of people trapped at a remote campground by a raging California wildfire were airlifted to safety by members of the California National Guard.

Nearly 8,000 residents of Riverside County in Southern California are forced to evacuate their homes as a wildfire spread uncontained across more than 4,000 acres.

Firefighters are deployed to tackle wildfires at the Denezhkin Kamen nature reserve in Russia's Sverdlovsk Region, according to the local Emergency Ministry.

Iranian judicial authorities order tougher jail sentences for people convicted of starting a bushfire.

Firefighters in California worked overnight to battle a blaze that broke out Saturday in Los Angeles, California, near Warner Brothers Studios near Hollywood.