Wildfire Eats Spokane Sky
Sudden flames transform routine airport drive completely
Kerouacs Cruising | Where Off-Grid Living Meets Soulful Awakening
Aug 4, 2026 · 28 min · 12 segments
We watched a wildfire grow from an airport parking lot. That was the calm part of the week. The truck is back with a brand new engine and 500 miles on it, and the drive to pick Cara up from the…
Cara KerouacHost
James KerouacHost
And it drove smooth to the airport, and, uh, the airport's about an hour and a half away, so pretty good.

I mean, some crazy stuff on the way to the airport, anybody's following the news.

I'm on Highway 90 heading to Spokane Airport, and I just see some smoke, and it's 50 mile an hour winds or whatever, 40 mile an hour winds.

By the time when I got to cellphone parking at the airport, the fire grew exponentially and it was crazy.

Everybody that parked in that parking lot got out and took a picture and was like, "What the heck is on fire?" And that made the drive home crazy.

And the last few days just, yesterday the smoke was so bad that the sun couldn't get through it.

Yeah, it was, it was like an amber glow on everything, and I know that's been going on a lot in the Northeast and stuff from the Canadian fires.

But yeah, we were experiencing that here yesterday, and yeah, it was crazy 'cause there were so many...

So the fire's pretty close to Spokane proper, and so there were so many evacuation alerts.

Like, while I was on the plane, everybody's phones kept going off with that emergency alert system.

And when we heard, last heard yesterday, it was over, and what did you say, 600 structures burned?

And it drove smooth to the airport, and, uh, the airport's about an hour and a half away, so pretty good.

I mean, some crazy stuff on the way to the airport, anybody's following the news.

I'm on Highway 90 heading to Spokane Airport, and I just see some smoke, and it's 50 mile an hour winds or whatever, 40 mile an hour winds.

By the time when I got to cellphone parking at the airport, the fire grew exponentially and it was crazy.

Everybody that parked in that parking lot got out and took a picture and was like, "What the heck is on fire?" And that made the drive home crazy.

And the last few days just, yesterday the smoke was so bad that the sun couldn't get through it.

Yeah, it was, it was like an amber glow on everything, and I know that's been going on a lot in the Northeast and stuff from the Canadian fires.

But yeah, we were experiencing that here yesterday, and yeah, it was crazy 'cause there were so many...

So the fire's pretty close to Spokane proper, and so there were so many evacuation alerts.

Like, while I was on the plane, everybody's phones kept going off with that emergency alert system.

And when we heard, last heard yesterday, it was over, and what did you say, 600 structures burned?
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