The Star - News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area

Over the last decade, the area has suffered through several fire seasons that brought not only fire, but lots of smoke, often from elsewhere.

This month, we got both, in huge amounts.

The fires that burned all around us consumed more than 500,000 acres in our local counties alone, but the smoke that sat on the state (and hard on the coulee) gathered off the coast for many days before making its wa...