By ALI SWENSON Associated Press
SEATTLE (AP) — Emergency responders in the Pacific Northwest are fighting misinformation along with raging野火as people spread unsubstantiated social media posts blaming coordinated groups of arsonists from both the far left and far right for setting the blazes.
The FBI said Friday that it’s investigated several claims and found them to be untrue, while officials in Oregon and Washington state have turned to Facebook to knock down the competing narratives — some posts blamed far-left antifa activists and others claimed the far-right group the Proud Boys was responsible for the fires scorching wide swaths of the region.
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“我在身体和情感上精疲力尽。我们一直在努力保护人们的生活和房屋。“我也想解决一个不断出现的问题，即使是我们在工作时与之交谈的一些公众。在这种情况下，它很热，干燥，火很快就会蔓延。没有什么可以表现出其反fifa或骄傲的男孩设置大火的地方。等待信息。”
梅森县警长办公室敦促华盛顿居民停止传播谣言，因为孤立的纵火事件导致了广泛的说法，没有任何毫无根据的说法，即安提法煽动者正在密谋沿着西海岸开火。Antifa对于反法西斯主义者来说是缩短的，这是反对白人至上主义者的一系列左翼激进组织。
“Though some agencies have made arrests related to arson recently, they appear to all be separate individuals, however as with many incidents, it will be an ongoing investigation in each jurisdiction,” the agency wrote Thursday night on Facebook.
While some arson arrests have been made, it’s not yet clear how all the scores offires in Washington state and Oregonstarted. Officials say high winds and dry conditions have made them worse in a region with a cool, wet climate that’s historically protected it from intense fire activity. Both Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee have called the wildfires “unprecedented.”
虚假的说法是因为左翼和右翼团体在太平洋西北地区的抗议活动中发生了冲突，尤其是在俄勒冈州波特兰，唐纳德·特朗普总统的支持者的大篷车上个月将皮卡车驾驶到自由城。一个Antifa支持者开枪并杀死了一个右翼团体的成员一周后，华盛顿州当局致命地枪杀。
The FBI said it worked with local authorities to investigate claims that extremists set wildfires and found them to be false.
FBI声明说：“阴谋论和错误信息将宝贵的资源带走了当地的消防和全天候工作的警察机构，以控制这些大火。”“请仅分享官方来源的验证信息来帮助我们的整个社区。”
Officials in Oregon also debunked claims this week of widespread arrests affiliated with the Proud Boys or antifa.
道格拉斯县警长办公室周四发布：“请记住，当我们说仅遵循官方消息来源时。”“还记得我们说谣言使这一已经很难的事件变得更加困难吗？谣言像野火一样蔓延，现在我们的9-1-1调度员和专业工作者被淹没了，请求信息和询问不真实的谣言，即有6名ANTIFA成员因在俄勒冈州道格拉斯县举行大火而被捕。”
Medford, Oregon, police knocked down a fake graphic spreading online that used the department’s logo and a photo from an unrelated 2018 arrest to falsely claim five Proud Boys had been arrested for arson.
社交媒体帖子周四广泛分享了一张女人的照片，并声称她试图在俄勒冈州斯普林菲尔德的一所高中附近开火。斯普林菲尔德警方告诉美联社，他们周三与这名妇女交谈，事实并非如此。
一个other post claimed a landowner called police after arsonists threw Molotov cocktails on his land in Clackamas County and they got into a shootout. The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office told the AP that no such reports existed.
Freelance journalist Justin Yau tweeted Thursday that he was told to leave the small town of Molalla, Oregon, by an “armed group” that feared outsiders after seeing rumors of arson nearby.
成千上万的Twitter和Facebook用户分享了试图将火灾与Antifa激进分子联系起来的帖子，包括来自俄勒冈州美国参议院前共和党候选人Paul Romero。
罗梅罗（Romero）通过电话到达，将全州大火的激增归咎于协调的“纵火犯军队”，但没有提供任何证据来支持这一主张。
Police are investigating a fire that originated in Ashland, Oregon, as a potential arson after finding human remains, Jackson County Sheriff Nathan Sickler told reporters Wednesday.
但是，阿什兰副警察局长艺术局长Art Lecours向美联社证实，该案“与Antifa没有任何联系”。
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office hasn’t made any arrests and its investigation shows no evidence at this point of a coordinated effort, spokesman Mike Moran said.
他说：“这些调查需要时间。”“他们很激烈。他们快速移动。因此，人们应该考虑：“这甚至有意义吗？”他们应该质疑他们在社交媒体环境中看到的任何东西。”
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