The Inlander11%
Local family fleeing Autumn Lane Fire was trapped in the middle of Long Lake on Saturday night 39%
By Madison Pearson3%
8/5/2026, 4:33:00 PM
Topics: Wildfires, Emergency Response
Keywords: Spokane Fires
BS Summary: This article contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Availability Heuristic, and Loss Aversion, with Anecdotal as the most egregious example at 24.1% saturation with 106 hits. Analysis detected 661 faulty-reasoning hits from 439 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 37.2% and a BS Rank of 39% (18,516 of 30,213 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 61.30% of the article peer group.
The story of the Spokane Complex Fire will never be forgotten by those who lived through it, like Micaela Jaime and her family, who reside in Spokane’s Five Mile Prairie neighborhood and were at Long Lake celebrating her daughter’s 12th birthday around the time the Old Trails Fire started.
“We got a notification that Five Mile had a level three evacuation and our dog was locked in our house,” she says.
“We got in our car and tried to go back home to get the dog, but all the roads were closed, so we couldn’t get back up to Five Mile.
We had some good friends go grab our dog, and we thought we were safe at Long Lake.”
However, just before 4 pm, the Autumn Lane Fire started just northwest of the Old Trails Fire and directly south of Long Lake, putting Jaime and her family in danger once more.
“We were sitting out on the patio of my parents’ house and within an instant, the Autumn Fire just blew up on the hillside,” she says.
“It was just crazy fire everywhere.
So we just started trying to load up any of our valuables at my parents’ house into our boat.”
As we reported on Inlander.com on Sunday, Jaime, her husband Matt, her kids and other family members, totaling 15 people, loaded up two boats and headed to the middle of Long Lake just before 7 pm.
You can see some of the harrowing video of their ordeal here.
On Aug. 4, the Washington Post picked up the story, with more video, posting it for their national audience.
“The hillside was engulfed in flames within five minutes.
Houses were exploding,” Jaime says.
“All you could hear was explosions everywhere.”
Jaime says they could feel the heat from the flames from the middle of the lake.
Ash was falling from above and getting into their eyes.
Smoke was quickly engulfing them and the hillside was fully ablaze.
Jaime and her family members remained on their boats in the middle of Long Lake until about 1 am when their friends who live near Tum Tum offered them refuge in a cabin.
Jaime says their home in Five Mile is thankfully still standing, but many of their neighbors did not share the same fate.
“We went back up to our house and gathered all of our valuables,” she says.
“But we’re really just trying to figure out how we can help some of our friends who have lost their places.
It’s just so devastating.”
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