Three firefighters have been killed and three or four more have been injured while tackling raging wildfires in the US state of Washington.

The teenager who survived a small plane crash in Washington’s Cascade Mountains says she burned herself trying to pull her step-grandparents from the burning wreckage.

A Canadian man drove more than 220 miles after his 75-year-old wife died next to him, uncertain whether he could cross the border with her.