Chances are, if you're a biker and you live in Spokane, you've time on the trails at Camp Sekani over the years. Nate Hutchens certainly has -- and that experience inspired him and dozens of others to spend their Saturday restoring it.
Camp Sekani Park is back open after the Upriver Beacon Fire, which burned a total of 115 acres of public and private land, burned 42 acres of the park.
Imagine being forced to sit in a car several hundred yards away from a wildfire as it surrounded your home.
Just minutes after the Upriver Beacon Fire blew up in East Spokane, the General Manager at Aero-Flite, Inc. was fielding calls from the Forest Service.
Coffee is on the house for firefighters this week at one local stand this week. Fire crews, many battling the Upriver Beacon Fire, can drink for free at Bigalow Gulp on East Francis today and tomorrow.
Tuesday afternoon was a frightening experience for many in Valley Springs, including Chuck and Colleen Friend, a couple who just moved from Port Orchard.
Of the three homes evacuated by fire crews fighting the Upriver Beacon Fire, the Zappone family owned two. Theresa and her husband have lived in theirs for 17 years, her son and his family building their house next door.
