by admin | May 5, 2022 | Stories
This article was first published by the Spokesman Review on May 5, 2022. By Colin Tiernan. SPRINGDALE – One by one, the firefighters pour the diesel-gasoline mix out of their big red drip torches and set the forest aflame. They start a tidy line of small fires first,...
by admin | Mar 10, 2022 | Stories
This article first appeared in The Spokesman Review on March 10, 2022, By Emma Epperly . Sun poured through the windows of a nearly empty house as 90-year-old Jim Jacobs, tears in his eyes, looked around in awe. He finally had a home. It had been 548 days since...
by admin | Mar 10, 2022 | Stories
This media first appeared online at NWPB. By Lauren Paterson March 8, 2022 Mayor Dan Harwood has one word to describe what it was like to watch the Babb Road fire devour the town of Malden. “Hell.” Harwood said he started filling water trucks and going door to door to...
by admin | Jan 24, 2022 | Stories
This article first appeared in the Moscow Pullman Daily News, Jan 22, 2022. The Ford Motor Company Fund awarded a grant of $25,000 to the Innovia Foundation to support the fire relief efforts in Malden and Pine Creek region after the Babb Road Wildfire in September...
by admin | Nov 24, 2021 | Stories
More than $1.2 Million in grants allocated throughout Northwest Region SPOKANE WA, November 24, 2021 — More than one year after the 2020 Labor Day wildfires sparked throughout Washington State, scorching thousands of acres and destroying homes in Whitman and...
by admin | Nov 1, 2021 | Stories
This article first appeared in The Spokesman Review on October 31, 2021. Written by Emma Epperly . emmae@spokesman.com(509) 459-5122 The road leading into main street in Malden, Washington, looks almost normal at first glance, with a row of old weathered homes with...
