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Washington’s wildfire season gets off to an early, unprecedented start
Posted by LA Times: Maria Laganga on July 6th, 2015
LA Times: The Sleepy Hollow fire raced down the crisp Sage Hills, straight toward the Broadview neighborhood in the apple capital of the world. Flames shot high into the night, torching 29 homes and causing hundreds of people to flee. Then the fire did something no one here had seen before.
Embers flew more than a mile Sunday night, into the hardworking heart of this small city. They ignited four industrial buildings, most involved in fruit packing, at the start of the busy summer agriculture season.
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Washington state rain no cure drought, due to bleak snowpack
Posted by LA Times: Maria Laganga on March 15th, 2015
LA Times: Californians take note: It is possible to have rain - lots of it - and still be plagued by drought.
Just look at tiny Forks, Wash., which bills itself as the wettest town in the contiguous United States. As of Thursday, 26.6 inches of rain had fallen on the Olympic Peninsula hamlet since Jan. 1, nearly twice what Los Angeles averages in an entire year.
And yet on Friday, Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee declared droughts on the Olympic Peninsula, which has three separate rainforests; as well as on...