Maddie Hitt, a senior in Family and Consumer Sciences, watched from their Spokane Valley house as columns of smoke moved toward them.
On June 16, around 1 p.m., Hitt got an all too familiar alert to evacuate.
“I look out the window, and there’s a big plume of smoke,” Hitt said. Hitt and their dad took their cat and packed clothes for their family members who were not home at the time and left their neighborhood…