As wildfires creep west of Cascades, county plans for next Bolt Creek

EVERETT — Agencies in Snohomish County are crafting a new countywide Community Wildlife Protection Plan to help them be even better prepared for the next big wildfire.

In early May, the federal government gave the county’s Department of Emergency Management $250,000 to work on the plan. The project aims to identify where wildland firefighting resources are, where terrain (or other factors) makes fighting fires or evacuating residents difficult, and how to streamline fuel management.

“We want to kind of come up with something we can all agree to, and that has public support, so that we are holistically managing the fire risk within the county,” said Lucia Schmit, the county’s emergency management director.

The plan will also look at evacuation routes and other information that could help agencies make quick decisions when dealing with a fast-moving fire.

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