The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) authorized the use of federal funds to help with firefighting costs for several fires burning in Washington. The funding will be used to help fight the Sinlahekin Fire burning in Okanogan County, the Fairview Fire burning in Steven County, and the Autumn Lane Fire burning in Spokane County. These are the seventh, eighth, and ninth declarations in 2026 to help fight fires burning in our state.

The fires are threatening homes in and around Tonasket, Loomis, Mead, and Suncrest. The Sinlahekin Fire is also threatning state-owned dams, a wastewater treatment plant, raw water reservoirs, finished water systems, and microwave sites, as well as the Washington State University radio infrastructure and the Tonasket Police Department headquarters. The fire has damaged the major power transmission line that supplies power to approximately half of Okanagon County.

The Fairview Fire is threatening private utilities, the Bonneville Power Administration power lines, railway, and farms. The Autumn Lane Fire is also threatening utilities, state and local parks, schools, a ranger station, fire district buildings, county microwave transmitters, a bridge, water district structures, grocery stores, and family care centers.

The approval makes funding available to pay up to 75 percent of a state’s eligible firefighting costs for fires that threaten to become major disasters. Eligible items can include expenses for field camps, equipment use, materials, supplies, and mobilization and demobilization activities attributed to fighting the fire. These grants do not assist individual home or business owners and do not cover other infrastructure damage caused by the fire.

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VIDEO: Destructive wildfires in central and eastern Washington are having an impact on first responders in western Washington. More than 400 firefighters from nearly a dozen western Washington counties have been deployed across the Cascades range to fight wildfires this summer. That number could climb as fires grow in Okanogan and Spokane Counties.

Five members of Central Pierce Fire & Rescue are on a two-week deployment in Okanogan County. Division Chief Steve Richards said the department can spare the five firefighters it has sent across the Cascades for now.

“Right now we have some benefits of the weather, but typically we see the east side starting to develop these larger fires, and it’s just a matter of time in the summer that we start seeing it on the west side,” said Richards.

Camp Murray, the National Guard’s Pierce County installation, is serving as a command center coordinating the state’s firefighting efforts, cleanup and eventual relief for victims.

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Hundreds of firefighters battled a major wildfire west of Athens after a helicopter collision killed two crew members.

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