A heavy tanker drops retardant on a wildfire in Weber Canyon, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, near Ogden, Utah. At least one home went up in smoke and more than 1,000 people were evacuated as high winds fed the flames that started in a canyon north of Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
September 8, 2017
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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.