Wednesday lightning sets fires across Idaho Panhandle
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff A dry thunderstorm the morning of July 7 set off a series of fires in North Idaho, including six northeast of Sandpoint known as the Trestle Creek Fires. In...
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‘Active’ fire season shapes up in Bonner County
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff An extremely active electrical storm in the early morning on June 15 saw lightning strikes all over the county, with one bolt making contact with tinder and sparking a...
Fires blaze close to home
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The July 27 lightning storm started 93 fires across the Coeur d’Alene Interagency Dispatch Zone, with 11 growing to be greater than five acres, totaling around 1,500 acres, the...
No cause yet released in Cape Horn Fire
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff The Cape Horn fire that scorched Lake Pend Oreille communities last year is seared into local memory. However, authorities still haven’t released the cause of the blaze. KXLY reports...
