{"id":58247,"date":"2026-08-07T20:34:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/before-and-after-images-show-spokane-wildfires-destruction\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:34:47","slug":"before-and-after-images-show-spokane-wildfires-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/before-and-after-images-show-spokane-wildfires-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Before and after images show Spokane wildfires destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated due to wildfires around Washington state&#8217;s second largest city, Spokane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">City officials say 600 homes have been destroyed as of Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Verify has matched videos posted online in the aftermath with images of the same streets before the fires to assess the damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5y3ppmmev1o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Read more about these devastating wildfires here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Produced by Mabel Pickering. Verification by Thomas Copeland and Jake Horton. Graphics by Mark Edwards.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/c70gjkxel0zo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated due to wildfires around Washington state&#8217;s second largest city, Spokane. City officials say 600 homes have been destroyed as of Monday. BBC Verify has matched videos posted online in the aftermath with images of the same streets before the fires to assess the damage. Read more about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[2780,341,1116,16258,1891],"class_list":["post-58247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reality-check","tag-destruction","tag-images","tag-show","tag-spokane","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58249,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58247\/revisions\/58249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}