SPOKANE, Wash. — Residents of Spokane’s Grandview Thorpe neighborhood participated in a mock evacuation drill Saturday morning to test their readiness for wildfires in an area surrounded by dry fuels.
The drill sent alerts to hundreds of neighborhood residents through the Spokane Alert system.
“The wildfire is certainly one concern, but more than that, it’s just physically getting in and out of our neighborhood,” said Tina Leurssen, a Grandview Thorpe resident who participated in the drill…