There have already been at least nine wildfires in the western part of the state this year.
COUPEVILLE, Wash. — Cool, gray Memorial Days are pretty standard in western Washington, but our summers are increasingly warm and dry — making wildfire danger very real across the western part of the state.
Teri Jo Summer-Reiger routinely readies her home for fire season every year.
It’s something many here in her Whidbey Island community have never had to do before.
“Since there’s water all around, people think fires wouldn’t be an issue, but they are,” she says.
Summer-Reiger is clearing what
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