US wildfires turn full moon orange

Ragingwildfiresin the US northwest and southwestern Canada cast anorangetint on July'sfullmoonon Friday evening, as smoke from multiple blazes gusted toward the east.

In Washington, DC, one view of themoon, as seen from the Washington Monument, showed afully sized orb shifting colors and brieflyturningorange. The silhouette of a Marine One helicopter flashed across themoonas it appeared to linger over federal buildings in the UScapital.

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Dozens of majorwildfiresare burning across parts of Oregon, Montana, Idaho and California, with Oregon's Bootleg fire the most massive and the state's third largest wildfire on records dating back to 1900.

As of Friday, the Bootleg fire, located about 250 miles south of Portland, had ripped through more than 400,000 acres (162,000 hectares) of drought-parched brush and timber and destroyed at least 67 homes near the California border. At its peak, an estimated 2,000 people were displaced by evacuations.