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MEDICAL LAKE, Wash. — A wind-driven wildfire in eastern Washington state
has destroyed at least 185 structures, closed a major highway and left
one person dead, authorities said Saturday.
The blaze began shortly after midday Friday on the west side of Medical
Lake, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) west of Spokane, and then expanded,
Washington State Department of Natural Resources spokesperson Isabelle
Hoygaard said.
It grew to nearly 15 square miles (38 square kilometers) by Saturday
morning, with zero containment. That remained the case Saturday evening.
Officials didn't expect to have new size estimates until Sunday morning,
she said.
The burned structures were a mix of homes and outbuildings.
Evacuations were ordered for the town as winds blew the flames
southward, Hoygaard said. The evacuations were extended Saturday evening
southeast to the town of Tyler, she said.
Among those evacuated were the parents of Spokane City Councilman Zack
Zappone.
"They were driving into Spokane when they got alerts on their phone that
there were ... evacuations at their house," Zappone told The Associated
Press in a phone interview Saturday. "They went back to get their dogs.
My stepmom said it was a giant cloud of smoke and darkness. Embers were
falling from the sky. She was having trouble breathing."
The fire swept through the neighborhood soon after they left, destroying
his parents' home and his uncle's home, just two houses away. Zappone
said his parents had lived there since 2003 and had just paid it off
last year.
"It's shocking," Zappone said. "I'm just in disbelief."
The blaze burned through the south side of the town and then jumped
Interstate 90 on Friday night, forcing its closure, Hoygaard said. The
major east-west thoroughfare remained closed in both directions Saturday
evening.
"The fire is burning on both sides of the highway," the Washington state
Department of Transportation said on its webpage.
There was one confirmed fatality associated with the fire, Hoygaard
said. Further details were not immediately released.
Staff, patients and residents at Eastern State Hospital, one of the
state's two psychiatric facilities, and those living at the Lakeland
Village Residential Habilitation Center, both in Medical Lake, were
sheltering in place Saturday, said Norah West, a spokesman for the
Department of Social and Health Services.
Evacuees from the town were given shelter at a high school overnight.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known.
"My thoughts are with the ... residents who have been ordered to
evacuate as the Gray Fire grows," Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said on X,
formally known as Twitter. "I'm also praying for the safety of the first
responders working to contain the fire. May you all remain safe and out
of harm's way."
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/20/1194902066/a-wildfire-in-eastern-washingto
n-has-killed-one-and-destroyed-185-structures
news:ubrp2n$12j95$2...@dont-email.me:
> You fuckers are being punished for voting Democrat. You begged for
> Hell to come you. Well, HELL IS HERE. You got what you voted for.
MEDICAL LAKE, Wash. — A wind-driven wildfire in eastern Washington state
has destroyed at least 185 structures, closed a major highway and left
one person dead, authorities said Saturday.
The blaze began shortly after midday Friday on the west side of Medical
Lake, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) west of Spokane, and then expanded,
Washington State Department of Natural Resources spokesperson Isabelle
Hoygaard said.
It grew to nearly 15 square miles (38 square kilometers) by Saturday
morning, with zero containment. That remained the case Saturday evening.
Officials didn't expect to have new size estimates until Sunday morning,
she said.
The burned structures were a mix of homes and outbuildings.
Evacuations were ordered for the town as winds blew the flames
southward, Hoygaard said. The evacuations were extended Saturday evening
southeast to the town of Tyler, she said.
Among those evacuated were the parents of Spokane City Councilman Zack
Zappone.
"They were driving into Spokane when they got alerts on their phone that
there were ... evacuations at their house," Zappone told The Associated
Press in a phone interview Saturday. "They went back to get their dogs.
My stepmom said it was a giant cloud of smoke and darkness. Embers were
falling from the sky. She was having trouble breathing."
The fire swept through the neighborhood soon after they left, destroying
his parents' home and his uncle's home, just two houses away. Zappone
said his parents had lived there since 2003 and had just paid it off
last year.
"It's shocking," Zappone said. "I'm just in disbelief."
The blaze burned through the south side of the town and then jumped
Interstate 90 on Friday night, forcing its closure, Hoygaard said. The
major east-west thoroughfare remained closed in both directions Saturday
evening.
"The fire is burning on both sides of the highway," the Washington state
Department of Transportation said on its webpage.
There was one confirmed fatality associated with the fire, Hoygaard
said. Further details were not immediately released.
Staff, patients and residents at Eastern State Hospital, one of the
state's two psychiatric facilities, and those living at the Lakeland
Village Residential Habilitation Center, both in Medical Lake, were
sheltering in place Saturday, said Norah West, a spokesman for the
Department of Social and Health Services.
Evacuees from the town were given shelter at a high school overnight.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known.
"My thoughts are with the ... residents who have been ordered to
evacuate as the Gray Fire grows," Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said on X,
formally known as Twitter. "I'm also praying for the safety of the first
responders working to contain the fire. May you all remain safe and out
of harm's way."
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/20/1194902066/a-wildfire-in-eastern-washingto
n-has-killed-one-and-destroyed-185-structures
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