Our wildfire season is heating up to be among the most expensive and longest on record. State fire officials say we haven’t seen a fire season like this since 2015, which was the costliest in state history.
Our dry, hot weather isn’t helping crews who are trying to contain the flames already spreading across the state.
Officials say 939 small but mighty wildfires have covered our state so far this year.
In Olympia, the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has a dispatch center that talks to the units on the ground and in the air. Just next door, a command center houses an administrative staff, fire operations specialists, and an intel team that can pinpoint the number of acres burning in any given fire.
“We everyday play chess, balance moving resources around.