Lightning storms, record-breaking heatwaves and bouts of howling winds have worked as a catalyst for wildfires that have ravaged millions of acres of land along the western US. Orange skies, soot-choked air and decades-old woodland up in smoke. These are the scenes along the western United States, with several fires bulldozing 3 million acres in California, and another 1.6 million in Oregon and Washington, an area roughly the size of ...