Photos: Life in Oregon

A firefighter breaks open a window in a vacant laundry building as smoke billows out from inside during a fire in Seaside, Ore. Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. Witnesses said the fire started in the laundry building and spread to the Seaside Foods dairy company and to a building owned by Peter and Jeff Ter Har. All of the buildings were destroyed. (AP Photo/The Daily Astorian, Wendy Richardson)