The Williams Mine fire which is three and a half miles northeast of Trout Lake, Washington has burned over 11,900 acres in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest and threatened Yakama Nation land. On Aug. 5, a lightning storm rolled though the Gorge and it if wasn’t for a lucky trail runner the fire may not have been reported as soon as it was.
- PUB DATE: 9/4/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Columbia Gorge News - Metered Site

A massive fire destroyed the Wolf Lodge Inn near Coeur d'Alene Monday. The fire was reported around noon and multiple fire trucks and ambulances responded. Firefighters upgraded to a four-alarm fire requesting assistance from Idaho Department of Lands, Idaho State Police, Spokane County, and Shoshone County.
- PUB DATE: 9/3/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

PHOTOS: George C. Hale served as the Chief of the Kansas City, Missouri, fire department for 31 years. At the end of the 19th century, he revolutionized firefighting with his more than 60 patented inventions, including the Hale Water Tower and the telephone fire alarm, and helped bring the country's fire departments into the modern era.
- PUB DATE: 9/3/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCUR-FM 89.3 Kansas City

PHOTOS: The Anne Arundel County Fire Department officially welcomed the newest addition to its maritime fleet with the first of two state-of-the-art 50-foot Defiant NXT Fireboats on Tuesday at Sandy Point State Park. Representatives from Metal Shark, which manufactured the boat, delivered the first fireboat via waterways from Louisiana to Maryland.
- PUB DATE: 9/3/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Bay Net

VIDEO: A string of fires burned throughout the Spokane area Monday. The largest fire was in the Dishman Hills and caused evacuations that were downgraded to Level 1 by 7:35 p.m. It was one of several brush fires with which the Spokane Valley Fire Department had to contend on Labor Day. Two fires started off eastbound I-90, one at around 3 p.
- PUB DATE: 9/3/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6 Spokane