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Small Wash. town, nearby hospital evacuated before wildfire; sheriff says 35 homes have burned

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    CORRECTS BYLINE TO JOSHUA BESSEX - A large cloud rises over wildfires in Eastern Washington as seen from University District at sunset on Wednesday, July 16, 2014, in Seattle, Wash. Worsening wildfire activity has prompted the governor's offices in both Washington and Oregon to declare a state of emergency, a move that enables state officials to call up the National Guard. In Washington, that declaration covers 30 eastern Washington counties. (AP Photo/seattlepi.com, Joshua Bessex) (The Associated Press)

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    Flames from a lightning caused fire can be seen from U.S. 395 just north of the Nevada-California border Tuesday July 15, 2014. Fire crews have the upper hand on a lightning-sparked wildfire near Reno. (AP Photo/The Reno Gazette-Journal, Marilyn Newton) NO SALES; NEVADA APPEAL OUT; SOUTH RENO WEEKLY OUT MBO (The Associated Press)

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    A wildfire fills the sky with smoke north and above Bordertown, Nev., Tuesday July 15, 2014. Wildfires were also burning in Idaho, Oregon and California on Wednesday. (AP Photo/The Reno Gazette-Journal, Marilyn Newton) NO SALES; NEVADA APPEAL OUT; SOUTH RENO WEEKLY OUT (The Associated Press)

SPOKANE, Wash. – A Washington sheriff says a small town and nearby hospital threatened by a wind-whipped wildfire have been evacuated, and the blaze has burned at least 35 homes in his county.

Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers says he's heard of no injuries from the Carlton Complex of wildfires.

The sheriff issued his highest evacuation notice Thursday for Pateros, a town of about 650 people along the Columbia River in east-central Washington. Residents drove south to Chelan. A hospital in nearby Brewster was evacuated as well, with the patients sent to Omak.

He said late Thursday night that the fire has reached Pateros.

The sheriff says he's been a law enforcement officer in the county for 30 years, and sheriff for 12 years, and this fire is the worst he's seen.

The Carlton Complex of fires has burned across at least 28 square miles of the scenic Methow Valley.