{"id":728273,"date":"2026-06-27T01:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T01:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/728273\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T01:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T01:14:13","slug":"ground-breaking-ceremony-held-for-new-dnr-facility-in-omak-spokane-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/728273\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground breaking ceremony held for new DNR facility in Omak | Spokane News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OMAK, Wash. \u2013 A ground breaking ceremony was held on Thursday for the new Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) facility, located at the Omak Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The event was attended by city officials, DNR personnel, and the fire chiefs of the Omak Volunteer Fire Department and Okanogan Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis facility will be crucial for area fire fighting in the future,\u201d Okanogan County Commissioner Jon Neal said.<\/p>\n<p>According to DNR officials, the site will feature a 14-building complex used to sustain DNR&#8217;s Aviation program, forest resiliency, recreation and other programs leading operations in the Greater Okanogan County area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This project will construct an operations building for aviation operations and personnel, a work center office building for the DNR&#8217;s Northeast Region, a shop building, a fire cache and warehouse building, five buildings contributing a total of 36 dormitory rooms&#8230;and a small outbuilding to house flammable liquids,&#8221; DNR officials stated.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Ground breaking ceremony held for new DNR facility in Omak\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a3f10266c6bb.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Courtesy of Jon Neal Okanogan County Commissioner #3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OMAK, Wash. \u2013 A ground breaking ceremony was held on Thursday for the new Washington State Department of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,313111,451,49567,983,3,313108,313112,61888,61889,61891,61890,313110,44234,452,453,2002,800,313109],"class_list":["post-728273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-government-of-washington-state","tag-headlines","tag-khq","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-omak","tag-specialist-law-enforcement-agencies-of-the-united-states","tag-spokane","tag-spokane-county","tag-spokane-news","tag-spokane-valley","tag-state-agencies-of-washington-state","tag-state-environmental-protection-agencies-of-the-united-states","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-washington","tag-washington-news","tag-washington-state-department-of-natural-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}