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Sleepy Hollow Fire rages in central Washington amid record-breaking heat
United States
All-time June heat records are dropping like dominoes in the Northwest as a multi-day heat wave has pushed highs to triple-digits and helped to ignite a dangerously fast wildfire that forced the evacuation of several hundred homes in central Washington...
Cliff Mass, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Washington, noted that one observing station near Kennewick, Wash., recorded an astonishing high temperature of 120 degrees on Sunday. “If true, this would exceed the ALL TIME RECORD TEMPERATURE EVER OBSERVED in Washington,” since August in 1961, when the mercury spiked to 118 degrees at Ice Harbor Dam in Walla Walla, Wash