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Lineage Warehouse Fire Grant Funding & Idaho Forest Restoration: September 6, 2024
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A warehouse fire that burned for months just outside of the Tri-Cities is still garnering headlines, this time for grant funding.
Let's take you back, though.
The Lineage Logistics warehouse fire happened in Findlay earlier this year, and demolition of all the debris is still happening.
The warehouse was 12 acres stacked high with frozen vegetables, and there is a lot still unknown about the air toxins associated with the fire that burned for two whole months.
Scott Matthews lives nearby.
He says the fire was a horrible experience for everyone in the area.
“The heaviness of the smoke.
The chemical burn of the smoke.
It would burn your sinuses.
Youd feel it in the back of your throat.
Headaches, nosebleeds, eye irritation.” People got bronchitis afterward.
Asthma and pneumonia.
Livestock died.
People who were forced to leave their homes or move animals can now apply for grant funding.
The Benton-Franklin Health District says people living within a half mile of the warehouse could get part of $300,000 that are available from a Department of Commerce emergency response grant.
Now, people living within a mile of the warehouse, you're being asked to fill out a survey about the mental and physical aftermath of the fire.
For details on the grants in that survey, just head to NWPB.org.
$30 million is going toward restoration of North Central Idaho landscapes.
The program is called the Good Neighbor Authority.
It's an agreement between the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests, the Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho Department of Lands, Fish and Game, and Idaho County.
“You'll see improved fisheries through aquatic restoration.
A lot of work focuses on forest health in a way that you'll likely see improved elk herds.” That's Cyrus Forman, a public affairs officer for the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests.
Now, here's one of my favorite healthy habits: Dancing!
NWPB health reporter Rachel Sun filed this piece on a Clarkson dance class for people of all abilities.
We're hearing from Maja Rodrigues.
“We are showing the young ones that you can do it even if you're 80.
If you had asked me three years ago when I started, I would not have been able to do it either.” You can find this dance class on Sixth Street in Clarkston.
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I'm Tracci Dial with your NWPB Weekly News Now.
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