Tested by Fire
“… forty-two days without a drop of rain. Three months with little more than a sprinkle… now 50 mph winds were… preparing to drop… smoke filled the National Weather service… this was no ordinary wind storm… Meteorologist Ken Holmes coughing from the smoke answered the phone…”this could be trouble he said.” By the time it was over 112 homes had burned in dozens of wildfires. Fifty thousand acres burned and two people were dead.
The Spokesman-Review sought out people in the photographs and in news reports and reconstructed the day in a special report.
