{"id":92251,"date":"2026-08-04T00:11:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/washington-wildfires-leave-some-spokane-residents-with-nothing-all-of-our-memories-are-gone\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T00:11:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:11:02","slug":"washington-wildfires-leave-some-spokane-residents-with-nothing-all-of-our-memories-are-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/washington-wildfires-leave-some-spokane-residents-with-nothing-all-of-our-memories-are-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington wildfires leave some Spokane residents with nothing: &#8220;All of our memories are gone&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>With some 67,000 people under evacuation orders amid three <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/spokane-washington-wildfire-evacuations-old-trails-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">destructive wildfires burning around Spokane, Washington<\/a><\/span>, hundreds could be coming home to nothing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All of our memories are gone,&#8221; said Anna Andreachi, a Spokane resident whose home was lost in the blaze. &#8220;My dad just died, and all of his stuff was still in there, too.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than 700 buildings in the Spokane area have been destroyed, and another 400 have yet to be assessed, officials said Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a nightmare situation,&#8221; Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson said. &#8220;This is likely the worst natural disaster in Spokane history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Joe Cvancara and his family managed to save their home by digging a fire line. But his neighbor&#8217;s home and at least eight others in the area were destroyed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cvancara said he&#8217;s grateful but that it feels like &#8220;survivor&#8217;s guilt in a way. Like, wow. So we&#8217;re going to open our home to our neighbors. I know it&#8217;s going to take a long time to rebuild.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/08\/03\/61cd0ea7-64c8-405d-a037-aa3818add785\/thumbnail\/620x413\/02b9f732181388649e71b7d7363dda41\/gettyimages-2288081337.jpg#\" alt=\"US-ENVIRONMENT-WILDFIRE \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/08\/03\/61cd0ea7-64c8-405d-a037-aa3818add785\/thumbnail\/620x413\/02b9f732181388649e71b7d7363dda41\/gettyimages-2288081337.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/08\/03\/61cd0ea7-64c8-405d-a037-aa3818add785\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/0d05e0cf3339a81f56d15487e6105fd2\/gettyimages-2288081337.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">A partially melted street sign sits in front of a burned out residential home in the Balboa neighborhood of Spokane, Washington, on August 2, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Erick Doxey \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The fires began Saturday, when extreme drought, bone-dry brush, high heat and wicked winds combined to create a dangerous environment for fires to spread quickly. Firefighters went door to door trying to save as many homes as they could, but were soon overwhelmed.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday, no deaths had been reported. Spokane County Sheriff John Knowles told reporters on Monday there were 14 people authorities were trying to get in touch with, but stressed that he didn&#8217;t want to qualify them as missing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are people who may have called for help or for help evacuating, and many of them likely did get evacuated,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You know, with poor cell phone coverage, people&#8217;s cell phone batteries die or they get to some place where they do find shelter and we haven&#8217;t been able to reach them by phone. So, that&#8217;s the task &#8230; for those 14 people that we haven&#8217;t been able to talk to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Old Trails Fire and the Fairview Fire are both still burning, but the main focus for firefighters on Sunday and Monday was the Autumn Lane Fire.<\/p>\n<p>The heat and wind that initially fueled the fires had died down by the beginning of the week, but the dangerous conditions are expected to return by Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Ramey, a spokesperson for the California Interagency Incident Management Team 7, told CBS News on Monday that the next few days could be critical for firefighting efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It looks like Wednesday into Friday we&#8217;re going to be seeing a heat trend up to the 90s, so it&#8217;s really time for us to put in the work &#8230; on this fire up north and continue the efforts with getting the communities back into their homes as soon as possible below us,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/08\/03\/5ce12da8-1ab5-43be-8a92-c39698ad3e37\/thumbnail\/620x413\/a9593fbeaec0db5b5384bc1f903e2480\/gettyimages-2288081457.jpg#\" alt=\"TOPSHOT-US-ENVIRONMENT-WILDFIRE \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/08\/03\/5ce12da8-1ab5-43be-8a92-c39698ad3e37\/thumbnail\/620x413\/a9593fbeaec0db5b5384bc1f903e2480\/gettyimages-2288081457.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/08\/03\/5ce12da8-1ab5-43be-8a92-c39698ad3e37\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/c87b2d7e179e447cb63c883a2e71734e\/gettyimages-2288081457.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Three members of the Spokane Fire Department sit on a curb in front of burned down homes in the Balboa neighborhood of Spokane, Washington, on August 2, 2026.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Erick Doxey \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ramey said that while the three fires aren&#8217;t particularly big compared to other notable wildfires, the issue is that they have occurred in what&#8217;s known as the wildland-urban interface \u2014 areas where human structures sit on the edge or within the wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s always a chance when you live next to trees and grass and the beautiful nature that you&#8217;re going to have a potential for fire like we saw,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t have rain for the whole month of July in this area, so everything was extremely dry. Everything was susceptible to those new starts, like we saw.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the Pacific Northwest, this has been one of the worst fire seasons in three decades. At least 16 major fires are burning in Washington state. In Utah, a fire has burned nearly 70,000 acres after doubling in size Monday. 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