VIDEO: Two years after two deadly wildfires burned thousands of acres and destroyed hundreds of homes throughout Spokane County, the damage still runs deep and it’s creating new problems. Problems like the ones Arthur Dibble, Jr. and his family are now dealing with. He and his family moved to rural Spokane County from California eight years ago.
“Coming from where we were, I think we were more just amazed with how green it was and all the trees,” he said. Today, those trees are now skeletons after the Oregon Road Fire burned through his property in August of 2023. Dibble’s home survived the flames. His shop, where his dad lived, did not. “He got the dogs and left and barely made it out of here,” he recalls.
Dibble rebuilt, but now he says every rainstorm brings a new disaster. His driveway and the county dirt road portion of East Oregon Road it connects to wash out every time it pours. “It used to not be that much water, you know, because there’s so many trees sucking up everything and vegetation,” said Dibble.
