Bolt Creek Fire to Keep US-2 Closed for Weeks

Firefighters have choked off three directions of the fire’s growth, but destabilized terrain above the roadway makes travel unsafe

Ed Note: I was fascinated (and impacted by) wildfire at my old Kettle Falls place, located in the heart of NE WA fire territory (the one million acre Colville National Forest) and I got familiar with the process of battling a sizable fire. There’s a couple common misconceptions, one of which is that firefighters are out there dumping water on the fire “…