Several wildfires lit up Washington state on Tuesday, destroying at least one home and threatening dozens of others. In eastern Washington, a brush fire burned at least one property and forced a handful of homes in a rural neighborhood to evacuate, said Patty Courson, a spokeswoman with the Walla Walla County Emergency Management.
- PUB DATE: 7/21/2015 4:37:38 PM - SOURCE: KIMA-TV CBS 29 Yakima

State transportation officials say Interstate 90 in Grant County has reopened in both directions Tuesday morning. A 17-mile stretch of highway was closed Monday after blowing dust and smoke from a brush fire made it unsafe for drivers. A spokesman with the Grant County sheriff's office said Tuesday morning that the fire has burned up to 900 acres and did not grow rapidly overnight.
- PUB DATE: 7/21/2015 10:44:01 AM - SOURCE: KIMA-TV CBS 29 Yakima

Firefighters were called to the Red Lion Hotel in Tacoma after fire in adjacent landscape spread to the building Tuesday morning. The fire spread to a stairwell in the hotel at 8402 South Hosmer Street. The side of the building where the fire occurred was evacuated. Firefighters could be seen breaking out a window, cutting holes through the stairwell walls and spraying water from the third floor.
- PUB DATE: 7/21/2015 10:24:23 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7

The Washington State Fire Marshall's Office is alerting residents near Walla Walla of a fire that has already charred more than 2,500 acres. According to DNR officials, the Blue Creek Fire is zero percent contained and is burning ten miles east of Walla Walla. The fire is burning timber and short grass, officials said.
- PUB DATE: 7/21/2015 10:19:28 AM - SOURCE: Northwest Cable News

Prosecutors say an apartment fire was a crime of domestic violence that could have killed many people. Thirty-three-year-old Ricardo Rodriguez is accused of setting fire to a South Park apartment complex with his ex-girlfriend inside on Saturday morning. According to charging documents, Rodriguez had a smirk on his face when he dropped a match onto pools of gasoline outside his ex-girlfriend’s apartment.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2015 7:46:19 PM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7