Colville rez suffers summer of fire

OMAK, Wash. – Their wives and children had evacuated earlier, packing in haste and driving down dirt roads obscured by smoke from the advancing fire. “Don’t worry about the flat-screen TV,” Tony Boyd had told his 16-year-old daughter. “Take the things that matter.” He packed the beaded buckskin jacket his mother had worn to powwows, a chest of family memorabilia and the softball from a championship game. Then Boyd, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, waited for the Tunk Block fire to come. Six other men – friends, neighbors and relatives – waited with him on a parched hillside east of Omak. They hoped to defend their homes against one of Washington’s largest wildfires. It’s been a summer of fire on the Colville Indian Reservation/ Becky Kramer , SR. More here.

Question: Do you know anyone who has been displaced by wildfire this summer?