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Joe Copeland Jan 12, 2018

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h2><p>A series of lightning strikes has kept firefighters busy in Eastern Washington and Idaho, with fears of more as a weather front moves across the Cascades this afternoon, the Seattle Times reports. The whole town of Chelan Falls is under a notice to be ready to leave immediately, and some</p></h2>
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            <p>A series of lightning strikes has kept firefighters busy in Eastern Washington and Idaho, with fears of more as a weather front moves across the Cascades this afternoon, <a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/lightning-sparks-fires-across-eastern-washington/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">the Seattle Times reports</a>. The whole town of Chelan Falls is under a notice to be ready to leave immediately, and some 400 people have been evacuated around Oroville in north Central Washington. The Oroville fire was set off by the crash of a small plane on Thursday, which killed two people.</p><p>The <a href="http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2015/aug/14/numerous-fires-ignited-fires-threaten-burn-homes/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Wenatchee World reports </a>that the blowing embers apparently set off a fire at a fruit company complex in Chelan itself.</p>
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A series of lightning strikes has kept firefighters busy in Eastern Washington and Idaho, with fears of more as a weather front moves across the Cascades this afternoon, the Seattle Times reports. The whole town of Chelan Falls is under a notice to be ready to leave immediately, and some 400 people have been evacuated around Oroville in north Central Washington. The Oroville fire was set off by the crash of a small plane on Thursday, which killed two people.

The Wenatchee World reports that the blowing embers apparently set off a fire at a fruit company complex in Chelan itself.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi