Officials with the U.S. Forest Service are reminding campers and other visitors to be more responsible with both fire and garbage when recreating in the National Forest.
It appears there is a lot to celebrate if you're a senior citizen living in the second decade of the 21st Century in Washington State...that is, if you're looking to live a bit longer anyway.
Although there's a 35,000-acre wildfire burning just three miles away from the bucolic banks of Lake Chelan's northwestern edge, you'd never know it in the small community of Holden Village.
Officials assigned to the Pomas Fire reported that the blaze has now swelled to 3,333 acres and has crept to within only three miles of Holden Village.