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Province restricting travel to the Okanagan and Kamloops

Our trigger-happy leaders too often get distracted by the causes of a crisis, rather than the stresses that exacerbate it – a difficult subject that deserves our full focus

MOSES LAKE — The Grant County Health District has issued an Air Quality Health Advisory for all areas of the county. Wildfires in Washington and British Columbia are affecting air conditions in Grant County, according to the advisory, and air quality is expected to be in the moderate to unhealthy range into the weekend.

Images captured by satellite show the extent of some of the damage caused by wildfires in Canada this summer.

MOSES LAKE – The National Weather Service issued a red flag warning Monday afternoon in light of extreme high temperatures, potential for high winds and low relative humidity throughout the Pacific Northwest, but especially on the western side of the Cascades. "Today's red flag warnings are in effect for extremely hot, dry, unstable weather west of the Cascade crest,” said Regional Fire Planner for the Pacific Northwest Region of the Forest Service Ian Rickert. “The challenging fire weather conditions coincide with areas that are experiencing abnormally dry to severe drought....