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Spokane Wildfires Displace 60,000 Residents

5 articles from 5 outlets First seen: August 03, 2026
2 left · 1 center · 1 right · 1 unclassified · Earliest publisher-stamped report: Al Jazeera English

See how each outlet covered this ↓ Compare the framing and bias scores below. A written neutral summary is still pending — every Pure Report account must clear two verification gates first — but the full coverage record is here now.

Where outlets disagree Contested

No neutral account cleared verification for this story, so we assert nothing as settled. Below is the raw record: what 5 outlets agree on, and exactly where they differ — each with the source's own words.

number of buildings destroyed developing
700
Washington Examinerright
“About 700 buildings had been destroyed”
hundreds
PBS NewsHourcenter
“hundreds of buildings have been destroyed.”
600
Al Jazeera Englishcenter
“burn 600 structures”
number of evacuations developing
67,000
Washington Examinerright
“some 67,000 people”
60,000
NPRunclassified
“evacuation orders for 60,000 people.”

What every side reports

Wildfires in Spokane have destroyed hundreds of homes.
PBS NewsHour · Washington Examiner · NPR
Evacuations have affected tens of thousands of people.
PBS NewsHour · Washington Examiner · NPR

Reported by only one outlet

1,000sq km has burned across Washington state.
Al Jazeera English — no other outlet we ingested carried this

Framing spectrum · 5 outlets

wirepublicmainstream flavoredpartisanadvocacy
Range 4–33 (Wire-neutral → Mainstream) Average 12/100 Lean: 2 left · 1 center · 1 right · 1 unclassified

Coverage patterns

Earliest report in our feed set (publisher timestamps): Al Jazeera English (center), Aug 03, 03:26 UTC.

Lean Outlets Articles Who
Left 2 2 NPR, New York Times
Center 1 1 Al Jazeera English
Right 1 1 Washington Examiner
Unclassified 1 1 PBS NewsHour
Report-by-report timeline · 5

Coverage patterns reflect only the ~50 feeds Pure Report ingests — not the full media universe. Timestamps are publisher-reported. Lean labels are Pure Report's classification. Articles are grouped by automated clustering, and counts include syndicated wire copies.

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