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Firefighters get a handle on Spokane wildfires as tens of thousands remain evacuated
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The Independent News
Officials reported Wednesday that firefighters had established containment lines around the perimeters of all three fires affecting Spokane and that they were focused on reinforcing those lines.
Unclear how long evacuations will lastThe other two fires were also started by people, though not necessarily deliberately, investigators have said.
Those fires, the Autumn Lane and Fairview fires, started independently of the arson-caused Old Trails Fire, they said.
Among those under evacuation orders are patients and staff from the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane.
Adam Wilson, a communications officer at the Washington State Auditor's Office, fled Saturday with his wife and three children, ages 9, 14 and 16.