Investigators say it’s unlikely the cause will ever be determined of a Sunday brush fire believed to have started in a homeless camp near the confluence of the Yakima and Naches rivers that then crested the Selah Ridge. “They disappeared,” Selah Fire Chief Gary Hanna said of those living in the camp.
- PUB DATE: 7/18/2017 2:03:51 AM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic

In a tradition as old as the service, firefighters from Lynden and around Whatcom County are standing vigil over the body of Lynden interim Fire Chief Robert Spinner, who died Friday of an apparent heart attack while on duty. It is the first line of duty death in the Lynden Fire Department’s 107-year history, according to a statement issued late Sunday, and the second on-duty firefighter death in Whatcom County – the other line of duty firefighter death was in March 1950, when Whatcom County Fire District 7’s Chief Clyde Eaton suffered fatal burns as a barrel of fuel exploded at a fire.
- PUB DATE: 7/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald - Metered Site

Thick columns of smoke could be seen for miles Sunday morning as firefighters battled big flames at a warehouse in Southeast Seattle. The blaze broke out shortly after 5 a.m. near the corner of South Grand Street and 22nd Avenue. The manufacturing warehouse is located just a block or two from the Coleman Playground near Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood.
- PUB DATE: 7/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO News

A brush fire that crested Selah Ridge and spread north and south as it moved up the hillside began early Sunday afternoon at a homeless camp north of Harlan Landing before growing to more than 400 acres, authorities said. Though no homes had been evacuated Sunday evening, firefighters were concerned about the threat to homes near Lookout Point.
- PUB DATE: 7/16/2017 10:57:15 PM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic