An estimated 40-acre blaze has put Neah Bay on the list of communities in the state with a neighboring wildfire this drought season. The fire has burned slash and 1-year-old trees along 200 Line Road southeast of Neah Bay, state Department of Natural Resources officials said Monday. The fire is on Makah reservation land about a mile from the nearest neighborhood, and though it is active, it is not expected to spread, officials said.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2015 7:38:30 PM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

Two adults and three children have been displaced following an apartment fire in the 23700 block of 110 Avenue Southeast this morning. The fire was first reported at 6:56 a.m. by the resident who said that there were flames coming from the clothes dryer of the first floor apartment. She also told the 911 call receiver that everyone had escaped safely.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2015 2:21:52 PM - SOURCE: Covington & Maple Valley Reporter

A Red Robin Restaurant in Bothell caught fire Sunday during the dinner rush. The two-alarm fire started inside the location on the Bothell-Everett Highway near I-405. Witnesses said flames and smoke were shooting from the roof before firefighters arrived. An employee said itall started in the kitchen.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2015 10:47:10 PM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13

Nearly 750 unintended fires have flared up across the state this fire season, state officials said, mentioning among them a rare burn in the lush Olympic rainforest. Rivers of the North Olympic Peninsula are running well below normal, but drought conditions here are less severe than they are elsewhere in the state, officials said in a Friday conference call.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2015 7:44:27 PM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

A two-alarm house fire caused an estimated $150,000 in damage and displaced five people Sunday evening in Vancouver’s Old Evergreen Highway neighborhood. The fire was reported to 911 at about 5:15 p.m. by people on the Columbia River, said Vancouver Fire Department Capt. Scott Willis. They saw the plume of smoke coming from the house, 1901 S.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2015 7:35:39 PM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian