A house fire displaced a couple Thursday north of Custer, in an apparent accident with a soldering torch. Residents called for 911 for a fire in a geodesic dome around 11:55 a.m. at 8302 Valley View Road. Firefighters rushed to the building, in a small clearing in the woods about 7 miles west of Lynden.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2017 3:07:34 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald

Tacoma Fire will investigate what sparked an intense fire that burned a waterfront home to the ground. Firefighters arrived at a home on the 3600 block of North Waterview Street just after 9 p.m. on Wednesday. Crews fought the flames from the outside of the home because it was too unsafe to go inside.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2017 7:25:07 PM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5

It was a good news, bad news kind of meeting for Klickitat County Emergency Medical Services District No. 1’s board of directors. On Feb. 23, the directors learned that the EMS District’s grant application to a federal agency for funding to pay for equipment replacements and one new advanced life support ambulance had been turned down.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2017 1:14:47 PM - SOURCE: White Salmon Enterprise

Montesano High School may soon have a number of fire cadets walking the halls. The Montesano Fire Department has partnered with the high school to offer a fire cadet program set to begin at the start of the next school year. “It’s an idea I had back in 2015. We started talks with the school but couldn’t get it all together in time for this school year,” Montesano Fire Chief Corey Rux said.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2017 1:03:42 PM - SOURCE: The Vidette - Metered Site

One person is dead and another is hospitalized after a fire at a home off Birchfield Road this morning. An investigation has begun, but most details remain scant this morning. The fire was reported at 5:54 a.m. at 1603 Birchfield Road east of Yakima. Except for a black smoke stain beneath the eves, there was little visible evidence of a fire from outside the one-story home.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2017 8:31:53 AM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic