Valley Braces For Fire Season
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August 1, 2013
Firefighters mop up a harvest fire that began Saturday afternoon south of Dixie and spread quickly across the hills off Spring Road east of High- way 12. The three-alarm fire was the fourth mutual aid call in six days to which Waitsburg firefigthers responded.
WAITSBURG - In a town like Waitsburg, the start of fire season has an unmistak- able sound. It's not the tone of the Main Street siren, it's the frequency.
If composer Claude De- bussy was right about music being the silence between the notes, the composition that announces the most ignitable time of year picked up sev- eral beats this weekend. And if local fire fighting officials are right about the conditions that can feed the flames, this summer could be more wor- risome than previous ones.
That observation has al- ready been borne out in other parts of eastern Washington, where two enor...
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