Bolt Creek Fire grows to 9,440 acres

The Federal interagency Northwest Washington Incident Management Team 8 firefighters took control today, deploying heavy resources

The Bolt Creek fire grew to nearly 10,000 acres yesterday although a sense of relief was palpable as the feds rolled NW Incident Management Team 8 (Team 8) on sight, arriving like an occupying army.

Nearly 400 agents, hundreds of cherry red trucks, 42 pieces of heavy machinery, five initial attack teams and four helicopters arrived in total with the man…