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By PAUL DELANEY
Staff Reporter 

Firefighters are holding their breath

Fire starts, acreage burned are well down from previous years

 

Last updated 8/4/2016 at 7:52am

Paul Delaney

With much cooler temperatures during the month, the Smokey Bear sign along State Route 904 posted an unusual reading on July 22 of a moderate fire danger.

After two consecutive record-setting seasons in Washington state, a kinder, more gentle July is over and, knock on an unburned tree near you, the number of wildfires and acreage burned is way down.

The Smokey Bear sign on State Route 904 between Four Lakes and Cheney said it all in mid-July, proclaiming a blue "moderate" fire danger.

"Moderate (fire danger) in the middle of July in Spokane County is a rarity," Guy Gifford, public information officer for the Department of Natural Resources, said.

The region was actually in a high level the end of June, so to be lower later in the season is e...



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