The Spokane VA Medical Center is currently closed and all inpatients and staff have been evacuated due to a wildfire in North Spokane. https://t.co/2RK7eRl4pA
🔥🎥Watch: Campers scramble as the “Old trail Fire” near Spokane, Washington explodes to over 2,334.6 acres. The fire which broke out shortly before 12 PM this afternoon, was reported Near N Old Trails Rd & W Euclid Rd. Multiple mandatory evacuation orders have been issued via Watch Duty.
📷KHG Local News
The Spokane, Washington Fire Dept. is asking anyone on waterways in the area, including Lakes, Rivers, ETC. to please get off the water as they are utilizing all waterways for airborne water pickup to battle the Old Trails Wildfire...
What are the chances "wild fires" in very unlikely places in Spokane WA, while a mass shooter in Idaho in a very unlikely place as well being 2A country?
Death penalty for arsons & no brainier for mass shooters.
Stay alert!
Aim small miss small!
City of Spokane has called in the National Guard to help fight the Old Trails Fire burning in Spokane, Washington. Over a Dozen Homes have caught fire so far with entire neighborhoods in danger, per Spokane F.D. via Broadcastify.
Spokane Washington is on fire. Zoom Earth app shows steady winds of 15 mph and gusts of 34 blowing the fast growing fire into residential areas. Here's a live feed of first responder radios being played on youtube.
https://t.co/yfWJU0SNc9
Sometime later depending on how long I’m reporting on this Fire in Mendocino County, NorCal, I will be reporting on the #OldtrailsFire and the other surrounding fires in Spokane, Washington.
BREAKING NEWS: Several homes are said to be burning as the rapidly expanding Old Trails Fire advances eastward into Spokane, Washington, according to scanner traffic.
Driven by extreme winds and red-flag fire weather, it rapidly expanded to around 2,000+ acres, jumped the Spokane River, and pushed into residential neighborhoods of Spokane itself.
4:50 PM: Chaos in #Spokane with multiple fires burning around the area and winds shifting more to the west, gusting up to 44 mph at Spokane Airport. The #OldTrailsFire has burned 2.3K acres, and the new #AutumnLaneFire has burned 250 acres. 2 smoke plumes now. #wawx
@Justa_Guy907@907Honest That’s really bad. The fire is on the west side of town & winds are 25, gusting to 35 out of the west, blowing the fire towards town.
Praying for Spokane.
Over a Dozen Houses Confirmed on fire by Spokane Fire Dept. Via Broadcastify in the Old Trails Wildfire burning in Spokane, Washington.
Pray for those in the path of this Very Fast Moving Fire... 🙏🏻😑
This is so frightening.
This is from KHQ reporter Hayley Guenthner.
She posted 1 hour ago:
“Frightening scene for a couple who just evacuated near Assembly and NW Boulevard in North Spokane. They shared this footage as they were leaving.
(Credit: Don Rasmussen)
Please do not drive into the Old Trails Fire evacuation zone. For those in the evacuation zone, please head eastbound.
For all evacuation information, visit https://t.co/ItmvfWppx9
Distressing images coming in out of Spokane.
The fire is encroaching on numerous neighborhoods and homes. You can hear the sprinkler going off in an attempt to save their home.
Video courtesy of Craig Hall.
Heavy winds in Spokane County are driving the destructive Old Trails Fire. The fire is spreading from the crown of trees, making it much harder for firefighters to get a handle on it.