When he couldn’t reach his cousin Jake Hyland on Mon­day, Jim Mabry drove to his family’s remote prop­er­ty in rur­al Wash­ing­ton state, where wild­fires turned pas­tures of 4‑foot-high sage into dust.Jake and his wife, Jamie, along with their 1‑year-old son, Uriel, were vis­it­ing their land in Okanogan Coun­ty when flames from the Cold Springs Fire ripped through the area. Rel­a­tives couldn’t reach the cou­ple, or emer­gency ser­vices, because pow­er lines were down.On Tues­day, Mabry dis­cov­ered Jake’s truck stuck in a ravine, about a quar­ter of a mile from the land. The vehi­cle had blown through a barbed wire fence. Its wind­shield had melt­ed, and the steer­ing wheel and dash­board were oblit­er­at­ed, he recalled.“When I first saw the truck, I didn’t want to search,” Mabry told The Dai­ly Beast. “I was so con­vinced I was com­ing across remains. Because I didn’t see any chance of them mak­ing it.”Yet the Hylands made a har­row­ing escape, rel­a­tives said, aban­don­ing their small pick­up truck and head­ing to the Colum­bia Riv­er, where res­cuers mirac­u­lous­ly found them Wednes­day morn­ing. Their lit­tle boy did not survive.Grandmother, 12-Year-Old Grand­son, Four More Die as Wild­fire Smoke Enshrouds Ore­gon and Cal­i­for­nia in Dark­ness­Now Jake, 31, and Jamie, 26, are hos­pi­tal­ized in crit­i­cal con­di­tion, their bod­ies cov­ered in burns. Jamie, who is preg­nant, has burns on 50 per­cent of her body, most­ly on her arms, hands and face, Mabry told The Dai­ly Beast.“It’s a mir­a­cle with a sad end­ing,” he said. “They sur­vived, but lost a child.” He added, “They loved their son. He was their ray of hope.”A GoFundMe page—which shows a pho­to of the cou­ple and their baby smil­ing on their remote prop­er­ty just a few months ago—has raised more than $117,000 for the fam­i­ly. Jake, his fam­i­ly said, is expect­ed to have at least four more surg­eries and will be in the inten­sive care unit for at least two weeks.The Cold Springs wild­fire is just one of a slew of blazes to dec­i­mate swaths of the Pacif­ic North­west and Cal­i­for­nia in recent days, with fires killing at least a dozen peo­ple in that state alone, accord­ing to the LA Times. In Lyons, Ore­gon, 12-year-old Wyatt Tofte died beside his dog. His grand­moth­er, Peg­gy Mosso, was also killed in a blaze. Offi­cials said the death toll was expect­ed to rise in Cal­i­for­nia, Ore­gon, and Wash­ing­ton, where thou­sands of res­i­dents have faced evac­u­a­tion orders. In Cal­i­for­nia, the fero­cious August Com­plex fire—which had burned more than 471,000 acres and was only 24 per­cent con­tained as of Thurs­day afternoon—was the largest blaze in state history.Also on Thurs­day, the Nation­al Inter­a­gency Fire Cen­ter report­ed 102 fires had burned through 4.3 mil­lion acres through­out the coun­try, most­ly in the West. The Cold Springs fire, which burned 172,000 acres, was 10 per­cent contained.Mabry said Jake’s prop­er­ty was deeply isolated—no cell ser­vice, elec­tric­i­ty, or run­ning water. The clos­est town is a 45-minute dri­ve. Jake and Jamie stopped at the prop­er­ty to drop some sup­plies at their Quon­set hut on their way home from a wed­ding in Spokane, Mabry explained, not­ing that the blaze start­ed around 9:45 p.m. local time Sun­day, and reached the prop­er­ty hours lat­er. “Peo­ple have been mak­ing rude com­ments, about how dumb they are that they didn’t get the evac­u­a­tion notice,” Mabry’s wife, Tam­mie, told The Dai­ly Beast. “It is off grid. I don’t think peo­ple under­stand that.”Mabry said the Hylands ditched the truck, which hit some rocks, and fled in the dark­ness ear­ly Mon­day morn­ing, car­ry­ing their son and a jug of water.Authorities sched­uled a search for Wednes­day at 10 a.m., but Mabry said the cou­ple was found ear­li­er thanks to a fam­i­ly member’s Face­book post on a local fire page. A boat from the Colville Tribe’s fish and wildlife agency dis­cov­ered the couple.According to local news chan­nel KREM, detec­tives with the sheriff’s office and trib­al police are inves­ti­gat­ing the child’s death as a homi­cide since the fire could have been “human-caused.”Two hun­dred miles away, the wild­fires came for vir­tu­al­ly an entire town.Larry Frick, 53, told The Dai­ly Beast he was vis­it­ing his son in Pullman—about 47 miles south—when heavy winds set his com­mu­ni­ty of Malden ablaze on Monday.He and his wife, Chan­delle, rushed home to save their dogs and cats, one of which has gone miss­ing. They also believed Chandelle’s moth­er was home at the time; luck­i­ly, she’d left before the fires con­sumed their neigh­bor­hood, ulti­mate­ly destroy­ing rough­ly three quar­ters of the homes in the town.They passed through smoke, fall­en trees, and the torched hous­es of their neigh­bors. When they got home, their deck and shed were on fire, and they worked for hours to douse the flames with a gar­den hose and sprin­kler. “The whole time, it lit­er­al­ly felt like a war zone. Explo­sions were going off all through town, ammu­ni­tion, propane tanks, fires blow­ing up,” Frick said. “A cou­ple made the ground shake.”“We’re still in shock,” Frick added. “I feel a sense of guilt. We have every­thing and we real­ly don’t need any­thing but our pow­er back on, and every­one around us has lost every­thing. They just have the shirts on their backs.”As for the Hylands, rel­a­tives said they were shocked and thank­ful Jamie and Jake were dis­cov­ered alive. “When you look at the scene, we were like… we don’t know how they could have sur­vived. The truck is like some­thing you couldn’t believe,” Tam­mie Mabry said. Jim Mabry said he’s gone through a roller­coast­er of emo­tions since his cousin van­ished. First he was told the Hyland fam­i­ly sur­vived. Then he learned Uriel had died. The child had joined his par­ents on a vis­it to the prop­er­ty last spring dur­ing the onset of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, when they took a walk to the riv­er where they were lat­er rescued.One recent pho­to shows lit­tle Uriel in a car­ri­er on his mother’s back as they roamed the land.“Being a mom was her dream,” Tam­mie said of Jamie Hyland. “She was made to be a mom.” Read more at The Dai­ly Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Dai­ly Beast hereGet our top sto­ries in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Mem­ber­ship: Beast Inside goes deep­er on the sto­ries that mat­ter to you. Learn more.