Karen Rawlins pulled up outside the Spokane Convention Center Tuesday and popped open her car trunk. It was filled with pillows for the displaced residents —including her elderly mother — of Devoted Care, an adult group home near Indian Trails that burned in the Spokane wildfires over the weekend.
Rawlins lived through the Oregon Fire north of Spokane three years ago, and she remembers it all too well. She said she relived “the pain and the trauma” this week.
Homes spared by past Spokane-area wildfires haven’t always been spared by their insurers. Cancellations and nonrenewal rates in fire-affected ZIP codes have climbed after the smoke from previous fires cleared, regardless of whether any given house actually burned…