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February 15, 2021 8:36 AM Erin Robinson
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The check will be presented Tuesday at noon.
According to the WFC, the funds are a portion of a grant the association received last fall from FM Global to help offset the challenges of this past year’s wildland fires across Washington.
Malden and Pine City were destroyed by a fast-moving wildfire in September, destroying homes, businesses, the towns’ fire station and fire engine.
In December, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources delivered a new fire engine to Malden to replace the one destroyed in the fire.
The grant funds from the WFC are intended to help provide the fire department with basic equipment and get the towns’ fire protection rebuilt as they work to recover from the destruction.
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The Biden administration on Thursday approved Washington state’s Major Disaster Declaration request for nine counties and two tribes in Eastern Washington that were devastated by wildfires over Labor Day weekend last year.
“Our state experienced extensive damage during last year’s wildfire season, particularly in Central and Eastern Washington,” Gov. Jay Inslee said in a statement on Feb. 4. “This financial assistance will help rebuild public infrastructure that suffered damage things like power lines, roadways, fencing around public areas and water and sewage systems.”
An estimated 80% of homes in Malden and Pine City two rural communities in Whitman County were wrecked by the fires in September.
Industry experts predict what travel will look like in 2021 and beyond
Brendan Kiley
Seattle Ask a few people in the travel business how their industry is doing, and you’ll start to hear some common refrains: Travel took a beating in 2020. The market is bursting with pent-up demand. Great deals are everywhere, but the terrain keeps shifting, so consider the help of travel agents. Beaches and parks are in so, apparently, is littering. Between vaccine distribution hiccups and the new coronavirus variants, nobody knows when the floodgates will truly open.
That last point draws a little more debate. Roger Dow, president and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association (a nonprofit trade group) says his go-to analysts at Tourism Economics predict gradual leisure-travel growth until June, then a spike in July, with corporate travel coming back in the fall.