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Goal!

A melted basketball backboard among the burned remains of Riverside Real Life church after it burned down during the Old Trails fire in Spokane. Firefighters in Washington state battled wildfires that forced 60,000 people to flee and destroyed hundreds of buildings as drought and extreme heat fuelled an ‘extraordinary’ fire season in the Pacific north-west.

Photograph: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images

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Cracking climate change

Jeff Clauson and his brothers, Brian Clauson and Bodey Clauson, try to open a safe as they recover items from Jeff's house which was burned by the Old Trails Fire wildfire, in Spokane, Washington, August 4. REUTERS/David Ryde

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