Re: spokane

On 8/3/2026 6:26 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
> NY Times,
> 
> "Spokane Wildfires Destroy Hundreds of Buildings as Thousands Evacuate
> Firefighters were hopeful that improving weather conditions in
> Washington state could help efforts to contain the blaze, which
> officials described as the largest natural disaster in the history of
> Spokane."
> 
> That is county, not city, but still populous.  It hits close to home
> for me because I went to grade school there.  1st through 7th.  That
> area always was very dry, like eastern oregon and calif.  The best
> vegetation you could get there was some scattered scrub pine.  How
> could a widespread fire burn there?
> 
Apparently there's more than one fire north of Spokane. Also a grass 
fire out by Mount Diablo, in CA. and in Mendicino and Sonoma.