Political Quotes

The Northwest will continue to benefit from air assets, and I hope that more of them can be deployed throughout the region, as smoke allows, to help Spokane, Okanogan and all Northeast Washington counties, the Spokane and Colville Tribes…

We just have to move faster.

Technology can play a big role. We have to show people that the connection between the information that we can get, and then the actual action plan that we can put into place, that's where that's where the gaps are.

At today’s briefing with Sec. Burgum, U.S. Wildland Fire Service Chief Brian Fennessy, and local fire chiefs, we discussed the next steps in responding to the fires and collecting information for a federal disaster declaration.