Keeping the flames at bay when there's just one way out in a wildfire

Darren Higashiyama gets paid to dwell on worst-case scenarios.

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“We are in a fire-prone area,” he added. “We have dodged a lot of bullets, but luck is not a plan.”

With this in mind, Kittitas County has embarked on a noteworthy, federally-funded project to thin forests and clear brush along two-lane roads in the Cle Elum, Roslyn and Suncadia area that would be the only escape routes for rural homeowners, hikers and campers were another big wildfire to break out nearby.

Several other Pacific Northwest counties also won competitive federal grants to systematically “harden” wildfire evacuation routes.

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