New evacuations were issued Tuesday for the Cedar Creek Fire burning in Okanogan County while fire crews continue to make progress on the Chuweah Creek fire near Nespelem and the Red Apple Fire near Wenatchee. Okanogan County Emergency Management issued Level 3 evacuations for the gravel portion of Wolf Creek Road from SR 20 east to the pavement in Winthrop for the Cedar Creek fire, which has burned at least 8,400 acres since starting July 11 and is just 11 percent contained.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2021 7:40:59 PM - SOURCE: iFiberOne

A charred landscape surrounded Washington State Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz on Tuesday as she visited the scene of the Red Apple Fire. Washington is seeing a historic number of fires and acres burned this season. So far, Washington reported over 900 fires statewide with an estimate of 140,000 acres burned, which is the same amount of acres that burned in 2019, according to Franz.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2021 4:04:37 PM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6 Spokane

The Brockway Borough Council spent $400 to buy a hose cart in 1904 and has brought the equipment home, reports Courier Express.

The apparatus is a wooden cart that two firefighters would pull to the scene of a fire. It runs on two wood-spoke wheels and had a box for supplies, a place to roll up a hose, and may have once had a hand pump to pump water.

The Brockway Volunteer Hose Company, then called the Brockwayville Volunteer Hose Company, was founded on Jan. 16, 1904. The hose cart was repainted sometime in the 1970s, and various pieces were replaced to hold it together.

A ribbon cutting was held to celebrate the expansion of the main fire station, reports WANE.com.

The fire station will serve the community as a vaccination and COVID-19 testing site and as a heating or cooling shelter during mass power outage.

Officials said this is a great example of partnerships between government agencies, the county and the city of New Haven.

Construction of a new Beatrice fire station is moving along, reports SandhillsExpress.com.

Most of the work of late has been on the internal components of the fire station and recently a new communications tower was erected next the station.

Voters approved a half-cent addition to the local sales tax to finance bond issues for the station, which will replace the cramped quarters in the lower level of the municipal auditorium, in use since 1965.