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Letters to the editor for August 6
I lost two houses in the Gray fire
It is OK to cry and grieve. And, when ready, make decisions.
Mike Sweeney
Medical Lake
Fire prevention starts with construction
A masonry home with a fire Class A roof and soffit won’t burn. Builders tell me brick veneer is too expensive, messy and time consuming.
Have we all forgotten about the three little piggies?
Marty Junge
Ilwaco, Wash.
No vision, courage or leadership
Sitting in Spokane surrounded by wildfires, breathing bad air, I wonder why people still accept out-of-date prognostications of 2050 for climate degradations cataclysmic disaster when I see it now looking out my window. Desire for power, wealth, and stupid conflicts reveal to few leaders who possess the intelligence, vision, moral courage, integrity to act instead catering to authoritarians, oligarchs and the complacent while people struggle and die and petroleum profits are protected, even subsidized!
John S. Emery
Spokane