Residents of an assisted living home in Santa Rosa, Calif., boarded buses to escape a nearby wildfire that broke out Sunday. Evacuation warnings affected more than 50,000 people by Monday as the Glass Fire merged with two other blazes in Northern California, burning 17 square miles, according to Cal Fire.

Ed Greene has a healthy respect for nature and its fury. Two weeks after Hurricane Laura swept through Louisiana, the retired National Park Service ranger wore a yellow shirt typical of Southern Baptist disaster relief volunteers and thumbed through a roster listing 100 homeowners who still needed help. Greene, the deputy state director of New Mexico Baptist Relief, had brought a crew of volunteers and chainsaws to clear downed trees from roads and houses in Vinton and Sulphur, La. 

Hundreds of requests for help along the West Coast have gone unfulfilled, Washington State Forester George Geissler said. Other countries, including Canada and Israel, as well as nine U.S. states have deployed supplemental fire crews to support local efforts to respond to the worst wildfire season on record. Smoke from the fires has drifted to the East Coast and reached as far as Western Europe.

At least 35 people have died in the wildfires burning across California, Oregon, and Washington, with several others still missing. The National Weather Service issued red-flag warnings through Monday night in some of the affected areas due to low moisture and strong winds. The flames have burned down homes and cars and left the region with poor air quality that might not improve until October, said Incident Meteorologist Dan Borsum of the National Weather Service.

The mother of 16-year-old Josiah Williams confirmed her son died in the North Complex Fire that blazed through California’s Sierra Nevada mountains this week. As of Saturday, at least 31 people had died in wildfires in California, Oregon, and Washington. Emergency workers expected the death toll to rise sharply as they discovered more bodies in the rubble of burned towns.

A thick blanket of smoke continued to cast an orange haze over parts of the usually cool Willamette Valley in Oregon. Nearly 40 fires had burned more than 900,000 acres across the state in the past three days, according to Gov. Kate Brown. At least three people in the state have died and more than 500,000 residents, more than 10 percent of Oregon's population, have been forced to evacuate.

Unprecedented wildfires fanned by wind gusts of 50 mph killed at least three people as flames moved across seven Oregon counties and left many other areas on alert for possible evacuations. Oregon Deputy State Fire Marshal Mariana Ruiz-Temple said the extent of the damage is unknown since many of the fire zones remain too dangerous to assess. A 1-year-old boy also died in Washington as wildfires burned through more than 480,000 acres in the usually wet, cool state.