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In this Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, photo, a wildfire burns through residential areas near the mouth of Weber Canyon near Ogden, Utah. (Benjamin Zack/Standard-Examiner via AP)

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The West had a snowy winter, so why the fiery summer?
September 8, 2017 3:20 p.m.

The West had a snowy winter, so why the fiery summer?

DENVER — Acrid yellow smoke clogs the skies of major Western U.S. cities, a human-caused fire in the Columbia River Gorge rains ash on Portland, Oregon, and a century-old backcountry chalet burns to the ground in Montana’s Glacier National Park.