The Spokane Complex fires burned over 10,000 acres as of Tuesday morning, said Tom Stokesberry, spokesperson for the California team 7 incident management team.
An array of service vehicles and wildfire personnel, many from outside the region, on Sunday rolled in and out of the Spokane Complex operations base at Mt. Spokane High School on Sunday.
A 37-year-old man accused of setting the fire that destroyed a swath of northwest Spokane, including hundreds of homes, was arrested Monday 4 miles from the site where it began.
Hungry patrons pressed their faces against the glass windows of north Spokane restaurants Outlaw BBQ & Catering and Fieldhouse Pizza & Pub at the intersection of North Assembly Street and Wellesley Avenue.
After thousands of Spokane residents were displaced from historic wildfires that ravaged Spokane, Desiree Dean wasted no time to rally behind her community.
Hotels in and around Spokane have filled up in recent days as thousands of residents have fled the three wildfires that had burned over 10,000 acres in the area as of Monday, but local hotels are coordinating to offer discounted rooms to evacuees.
When Brianna Burtness had to evacuate her home in north Spokane on Sunday evening, she wasn’t sure she could find time in the chaos to return her ballot.
Avista CEO Heather Rosentrater made clear Monday that the energy company’s facilities “were not involved in starting any of these fires in the Spokane area.”
