Most Wildfires Never Make Headlines. Here’s What Happened After Two of Them.

Most Wildfires Never Make Headlines. Here’s What Happened After Two of Them.

I. Escape from Silver LakeOn the day of the wildfire, Kaye Peterson witnessed three miracles.The first miracle was that the campers were late. On a normal Friday, caravans of cars would wind the 40 miles west from Spokane, Washington, to Silver Lake Camp, following a one-way-in, one-way-out road from nearby Medical Lake. Each previous week’s 300 or so campers typically departed by 11 a.m., which gave staff like Peterson — who had left her job as…