My sister called last night to let us know that the Pot Peak Fire ha forced the evacuation of Holden Village and the Lucerne area on Lake Chelan.
My parents have volunteered to stay at the village on the skeleton crew that will be assisting firefighters. Oddly enough, this might include of my sister’s childhood friends who is now on a hot shots crew that is working on the same fire.
My parents insisted that we go stay at the Old Faithful Inn during the Fires of 1988 in Yellowstone. They insisted that we’d be glad we’d seen them, and in retrospect they were right. I was scared stiff, and was relieved to learn that the lodge was evacuated before we visited.
Anyway, I hope they’re ok. Michelle pressed me to get details that I would not have otherwise asked for, and it seems that if the fire danger gets significant, they’ll be evacuated by air. Cool.
Update: – its actually the Deep Harbor Fire that is forcing the evacuation. My mistake.
Just make sure they get on the copter and not under one of those fire shields.
Deep Harbor sounds cooler.
They’re even mentioned by name on the Holden Village site, thought they mispelled my dad’s name.
and mom’s actually. But they are “core staff”!