I imagine that geoengineering technology has been a major factor in triggering and sustaining this fire that has been difficult to contain.
-NW

Why firefighters aren't quickly extinguishing the Bolt Creek Fire
Melissa Santos
Axios Seattle
Oct 20, 2022

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A big contributor to poor air quality in the Seattle area in recent weeks has been the Bolt Creek Fire, which continues to burn on the edge of King County near Skykomish.

• Yet the team fighting the flames says there are several reasons they can't simply go in and extinguish the blaze.

Why it matters: The fire, which has burned since Sept. 10, has periodically choked the region in smoke and closed parts of U.S. Highway 2.

• On Wednesday afternoon, Seattle's air quality ranked as the worst in the world, according to IQAir's comparison of city air quality and pollution levels. Seattle's air quality continued to be very unhealthy on Thursday.

The latest: The ground around the fire is steep and covered in trees, officials say, making it more likely that burning debris will fall and roll away. That increases the chance that a fire could spread below firefighters and entrap them, Don Ferguson, a spokesperson for the incident management team, wrote in a statement to Axios.

There's also a great danger of a firefighter getting struck by a falling tree, Ferguson wrote.

On top of that, much of the area where the fire is burning isn't accessible by roads, making it so firefighters can't use fire engines to help, he said.