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Records request seeks cell data
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Pulling together for a land in flames
County is fielding an anonymous demand for vast amount of information from government phones used by county employees. By Noah Haglund and Scott North Herald Writers
EVERETT — A new anonymous records request has left Snohomish County grappling yet again with technological challenges and huge demands on staff time. A person using the name Mr. Public Requestor emailed in June to demand all data from all active government cellphones being used by county employees. Audio, video and pictures were sought, along with applications, operating system data and everything else that makes a smart phone work. Extracting all of that information could take up to four hours for each of the county’s 1,000 cell phones, tech employees estimate. That’s not counting time to redact personal information, computer passwords and other details exempt from public disclosure. In the meantime, county workers have been told not to delete anything from their work phones. “You have to look at every picture, you have to look at every text,” said Teri Lawrie, a public records assistant in the county’s tech department. “I wouldn’t be comfortable with saying how many hours of work.”
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Brandon Gardner, a firefighter with Snohomish County Fire District 7, gets a water hose into position while helping prevent a wildfire from spreading to Tim Eylar’s property on Salmon Creek Road near Okanogan on Saturday.
Snohomish fire crews in the thick of battle in Okanogan By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer
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Derek McCraigie carries bottles of Gatorade to his car at his family’s home on 2nd Avenue North in Okanogan before heading out to distribute supplies to those in need. McCraigie’s family started collecting donated supplies on Wednesday as wildfires spread through the region.
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OKANOGAN — The fire rolled over the hill, leaving black dust, white ash and burned sage behind. But the apple orchards below and three of four homes were saved. Fire breaks dug by Snohomish County firefighters on Friday stopped the flames. Four of the firefighters walked the lines Saturday, looking for smoldering hot spots that could flare up again.
“They’ve got the heat, they just need a little wind,” and they can jump back to life, said Matt Park, an Everett firefighter who was among the hundreds called in to fight the still out-of-control wildfires in Central Washington. Neighbors and strangers, some from as far away as Florida, are stepping up as one of the biggest disasters in state history unfolds. A few miles northeast, in one of the many steep valleys that cut See WILDFIRES, Page A6
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