Firefighters responded to a house fire Tuesday afternoon at a home near 40th and Cook on the South Hill. At the time of the fire a babysitter was home watching multiple children. The babysitter was able to get the kids out of the home safely. Firefighters say the fire was started because there was a combustible too close to the fireplace in the home.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2017 3:43:41 PM - SOURCE: KQNT-AM 590 Spokane

Three Washington State University students have been charged with gross misdemeanors in connection with the start of a wildfire that burned about 11,000 acres last summer. Blake Rogers, 22, Isaiah Weber, 23, and Jonathan Whitley, 22, all of Pullman, were each charged Monday with second-degree reckless burning for allegedly starting an illegal campfire that grew into the Snake River Fire.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2017 3:07:55 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

Crews responded Tuesday to a two-alarm fire at a Gig Harbor strip mall that sent a column of smoke over the area. A spokesperson for the Gig Harbor Fire Department says the blaze was in a teriyaki restaurant in a strip mall in the 6800 block of Kimball Drive. Firefighters extinguished the flames, but the street is likely to remain closed for some time as crews mop up at the scene.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2017 8:27:03 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

Crews made a tragic discovery after responding to a small condo fire in Seattle's Wedgwood neighborhood overnight, officials said. An elderly woman was found dead inside the unit, but it wasn't immediately clear if her death was related to the fire. Firefighters responded to the scene, a condominium in the 2300 block of NE 89th Street, at about 2:25 a.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2017 8:10:36 AM - SOURCE: seattlepi.com

Quick work by a truck driver and emergency responders Monday afternoon prevented a spill downtown of about 20 gallons of diesel from becoming worse. Matt Klym, driver for Hicks Transportation of Albany, Oregon, was pulling his Peterbilt 18-wheeler out of the parking lot of cold-storage facility, Lineage Logistics, when one of the rig’s fuel tanks scraped a bump in the pavement and lost the tank’s drain plug.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2017 3:12:15 AM - SOURCE: Wenatchee World