‘Your neighborhood is not your neighborhood anymore’: Victims of the Old Trails fire return home

Apart from some clothes, the only items Jaquish was able to load in to his compact Chevrolet Volt while evacuating from the Old Trails fire on Aug. 1 were seven valuable books from the 17th, 18th and ...

In wildfire evacuations, some livestock escaped the blaze. Others weren’t so lucky

Rozella Ehrler’s largest concern days after the Autumn Lane fire decimated her home in Nine Mile Falls was removing the bodies of her two pigs who couldn’t get out in time.

Residents affected by the Fairview fire can return home

Evacuation orders have been lifted for residents affected by. Fire officials said Monday they no longer believe the fire ...

Wildfires threaten to further strain Spokane area’s housing market: ‘It’s going to have a huge impact’

Sitting at home in Medical Lake watching news coverage of the Old Trails fire sweeping through northwest Spokane, Cindy Altheide’s heart ached for the people forced to flee their homes, not knowing ...

A living nightmare: Spokane sisters lose both their homes in a week

Families across Spokane have been rocked by the recent wildfires that took hundreds of structures and left thousands of people with no home and little to no possessions, including two sisters who lost ...

Evacuation zones shrink, allowing thousands to return to homes in north Spokane

Thousands of evacuees are being allowed to return to their homes a week after fleeing raging wildfires that consumed entire neighborhoods in northwest Spokane.
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Destroyed by fire in 2020, Malden avoids fiery repeat Saturday

MALDEN, Wash. – Six years after a wildfire roared through, destroying 80% of this Whitman County town, another blew in ready to do the same. But this time, firefighters and residents were able to stop ...

Malden, destroyed by fire in 2020, evacuated for Saturday fire that’s grown to about 1,000 acres

Two 1,000-acre wildfires were forcing evacuations in Whitman County, including for the whole town of Malden, according to a Whitman County Sheriff’s Office news release. Structures have been lost in ...
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I was one of the first reporters on Spokane’s devastating Old Trails fire. This is what I saw

As smoke and flames encroached on a neighborhood near Indian Trail Elementary School during Spokane’s most devastating fire, a Spokane police officer raced to the home of a couple in an attempt to ...
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Rifle club, church destroyed in Old Trails fire; other facilities damaged, threatened

Many of the more than 900 structures estimated to have been destroyed or damaged in the Spokane Complex fires were single-family homes. But a rifle club, church and other facilities are among the ...

Spokane Velocity’s Saturday match at New York Cosmos postponed

The Spokane Velocity's USL League One match against the New York Cosmos, which was scheduled for 4 p.m. on Saturday at ...
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‘It doesn’t seem real’: Spokane is a community in mourning as the toll of destruction from weekend wildfires comes into focus

Each neighbor wears the shock differently. Some evacuees slowly returned to the neighborhood surrounding Rifle Club Road on Monday to find what both civilians and the state’s adjutant general ...