While wildfires are a common occurrence during summers, town evacuation plans are not.
Most towns don’t have an evacuation plan.
And neither did Winthrop or Twisp.
The Hamilton Fire, which started in Winthrop June 28, was a test of the town’s evacuation plan that was adopted just two weeks earlier. There was no prior dry run. A sign board that was painted for just such an occurrence had barely finished drying before it needed to…
