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Monday, August 19, 2024

Mountlake Terrace installs "no access" sign to Edmount Island

Photo courtesy City of MLT
Following the fire on August 4, 2024 on Edmount Island in Lake Ballinger, the City of Mountlake Terrace has installed a sign to inform the public that the Island is off limits.

The fire was thought to have been started by an illegal campfire.

The island has been closed to the public since an illegal barbecue sparked a peat bog fire on the island in July 2009, that lasted for months and filled the skies with smoke.


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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 19, 2024 at 9:58 AM

    Another case of ‘this-is-why-we-can’t-have-nice-things’. If we actually punished people who wreck public property, we might discourage others from considering it, and then all of us might be able to enjoy places like Edmount Island.

    Unfortunately, too many of us feel that holding people accountable isn’t ‘woke’, so anything goes.

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  2. AnonymousAugust 20, 2024 at 5:01 AM

    I find it ironic to see signs like this. One of my favorite signs reads "County property, no tresspassing". Or in other words... land owned by the general public, keep out

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  3. AnonymousAugust 20, 2024 at 6:05 AM

    Not just anyone can get to an island in the middle of a lake under their own power. Instead of prohibiting landings, the better way to deal with it would be to put up signs all around the shoreline saying "Absolutely no fires" with a detailed explanation below as to why fire is a unique danger there.

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