Three die today here in WA.
Several others hurt.
Getting bad. Sky is yellow from the smoke.
RIP firefighters.

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Only difference Fool/Mule-ears

Prayers to their families and loved ones.

Highway 20 is closed for 40 miles between Newhalem and Winthrop, Winthrop and Twisp are being evacuated, and if you click on the WSDOT highway camera for Winthrop all you see is a few close-by trees; the rest of the frame is just smoke. It's pretty dang bad. One of my nieces is a firefighter in Central CA and we were all worried for her when they were having their wildfires. Can't imagine the pain of losing a loved one like this.

My god protect them, their friends, family, and co-workers. Prayers sent

I think the warden in Tonasket just lost his home

Prayers out to him and his boys

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Cheers, Charles
SWCA #2442

My prayers go out to their loved ones. I was on a volunteer fire dept. years ago. Fighting fire is serious business & can be deadly.

Terribly dangerous work. This is a tragic loss. Prayers for their families and their colleagues.

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Oh well, what the hell.

RIP to the ones who lost their lives. Also several were hurt and I hope they recover. Thank you to those who risk their life to stop these
awful fires.

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Goose
I'm still standing.

May God bless my fallen brothers...

Waiting to find out if it was anybody I knew. One of our friends is a hot shot (Just turned down a promotion to a "jumper"). We know he's in Chelan right now, so he's "OK".

I was in a meeting with the Forest Information Officer a couple of days ago. She told us one guy evacuated in his boat (on Lake Chelan, south of Twisp) and watched his house burn from the boat. Several others swam out into the lake to avoid the flames. These were all people who refused to evacuate. Both my wife and I have been alerted to evacuate or prepare to at least twice. Once my office (in the FS headquarters) had to go and once we were on alert at home. She had to evac this year when a structure in town caught fire from the embers of a brush fire.

One fire jumped the Columbia River and they are trying to evacuate hundreds of livestock from Douglas County.

I'm about 40 miles south of Lake Chelan and I woke up needing my inhaler (I rarely need it) and I'll have to go home to get it, Our sky is more brown than yellow as the sun comes up.

For God's sake, if you are told to evacuate, GO! Don't make the emergency personnel risk their lives for you if they don't need to.

It's hard enough dealing with the fire let alone irrational thinking evacuees that wait too long to leave. I have been on wildfires where the local residents only had one way in and out of their sub-division, the evacuees blocked the road trying to pack vehicles, hindering firefighters who were trying to get equipment into the sub-division to protect structures.

Prayers sent for the lost firefighters.

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"Life is short, hunt hard"

May God Bless them and their family's and coworkers.