VIDEO/PHOTOS: King County leaders and fire officials are expecting an active wildfire season. They're also asking communities to get ready in case evacuations are needed. Fire officials said drought conditions and Washington's low snowpack are contributing to a potentially troubling wildfire reason.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

More than 50 firefighters from 13 different fire agencies responded to an apartment complex fire in Edmonds on Wednesday afternoon. Neighbors say the fire started at around 12:30 p.m. at a building near the corner of 236th St. SW and 80th Ave. W. This area is just a few blocks west of Ballinger Park.
- PUB DATE: 6/13/2024 11:41:47 AM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13 Seattle

VIDEO: It was unlike any day Todd Graves has seen. "We ran out and ran down there and looked around the corner, the shop was very tall. When we looked around the corner, there was a wall of fire back in those trees," Graves said. "From the time that we saw the wall of fire until the time we left was probably 20 minutes.
- PUB DATE: 6/13/2024 4:01:55 AM - SOURCE: KREM-TV CBS 2 Spokane

A recycling business in Kilgore was burning Wednesday night. Kilgore, Sabine, and White Oak fire departments were working to extinguish a structure fire at Rivers Recycling. The facility is located at 298 FM 1252 West in Kilgore. Kilgore Fire Marshal Ryan Riley says dispatch received the call reporting a structure fire just before 6 p.
- PUB DATE: 6/13/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KLTV ABC 7 Tyler

VIDEO: Firefighters in South Los Angeles said they had to physically fight a man off after he attacked a fire truck in a caught-on-camera confrontation. A Station 16 fire truck was on its way to respond to a crash when the man suddenly climbed aboard the fire engine. “We were literally responding to a traffic collision and this guy just came out of nowhere, jumped in front of the engine and just started punching it,” said Andrew Chaing, a firefighter/paramedic who was in the truck at the time of the incident.
- PUB DATE: 6/13/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNBC-TV NBC 4 Los Angeles