SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. — Two years after two deadly wildfires burned thousands of acres and destroyed hundreds of homes throughout Spokane County, the damage still runs deep and it’s creating new problems.

Problems like the ones Arthur Dibble, Jr. and his family are now dealing with. He and his family moved to rural Spokane County from California eight years ago.

"Coming from where we were, I think we were more just amazed with how green it was and all the trees,” he said.

Today, those trees are now skeletons after the Oregon Road Fire burned through his property in August of 2023.

Dibble's home survived the flames. His shop, where his dad lived, did not.

“He got the dogs and left and barely made it out of here,” he recalls.

Dibble rebuilt, but now he says every rainstorm brings a new

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