Seattle Fire crews responded to a docked boat on fire in a Magnolia marina Tuesday night, according to the department. The incident is taking place in the 2600 block of West Marina Place and involved an approximately 30-foot power boat. A nearby boat was scorched, but the fire did not spread.

Flotation booms were placed around the impacted boat to prevent debris from spreading in the water, the department said. No injuries have been reported. Crews have extinguished the flames and also prevented the fire from spreading to several other boats. It’s not clear how the fire started. Seattle Fire is investigating.

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Pierce County prosecutors have charged a woman with first-degree arson and second-degree malicious mischief, alleging she set her former boyfriend’s car on fire in Tacoma and damaged a nearby home where four people were inside. Stephanie Marie Rideout was charged Tuesday in Pierce County Superior Court. The state requested $150,000 bail.

The fire began around 11:39 p.m. on Saturday in a 1980 Oldsmobile Cutlass Sierra parked along South 53rd Street, according to court documents. The vehicle’s owner told police Rideout was his former girlfriend, that they have children together and that they were breaking up.

A witness said she stepped outside and saw Rideout near the burning car as flames reached a second-story window of the neighboring home. The witness told police a man grabbed a hose and tried to put out the fire, but Rideout attempted to stop him and yelled, “Let it burn.” The man eventually pulled Rideout away because he feared the car could explode, according to the court documents.

Another neighbor warned the people inside the house about the fire. Four residents evacuated before Tacoma firefighters arrived and extinguished the flames. Police said heat from the fire melted vinyl siding and a plastic electrical box on the house.

KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle

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VIDEO: Fire officials are reminding people not to fly drones over active fire zones as crews continue to fight several wildfires in Spokane County. The California Interagency Incident Management Team 7 says it saw 26 “private drone incursions” on Sunday over the area of the Old Trails Fire, which forces air resources to be grounded.

“Our pilot safety comes first,” said Tom Stokesberry, a fire official with California Interagency Incident Management Team 7 on Monday morning. “We don’t wanna have an airstrike with a drone that’s gonna put one of our pilots in danger.” Stokesberry says flying drones in a Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) area is a violation of federal law and can result in a $10,000 fine.

“Please let our firefighters get in here and continue to suppress this fire from both the air and the ground,” Stokesberry said.

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VIDEO: A wildfire burning in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest northwest of Leavenworth has grown to 51,000 acres. The Little Giant Fire is threatening 1,824 structures as more than 1,000 fire personnel work to contain it, according to fire officials.

Level 3 evacuations are in place for the Chiwawa and Tyee ridges and Chelan Mountains. Level 2 and 1 evacuations are in place south of those areas. The Little Giant Fire is one of a dozen burning in Washington state that KING 5 is tracking.

On Sunday, most of the new activity was on the east side of the fire’s perimeter. That included the fire burning along the shore of Lake Chelan, east of Grouse Mountain and northwest of Twenty-Five Mile Creek State Park. Across the lake, crews are also battling a spot fire in steep, rugged terrain after the fire jumped the lake.

KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle

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VIDEO: The Washington State Department of Ecology issued an air quality alert through 5 p.m. Wednesday for King, Kitsap, Pierce, Snohomish and Thurston counties due to wildfire smoke. The view from a West Seattle fishing pier shows wildfires across the state have cast a wide haze over the city skyline.

“I was worried about the smoke coming out of Canada, but it’s really getting bad in eastern Washington,” Eleanor Mitchell from Seattle said. The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency is forecasting that by Tuesday, air quality would be considered unhealthy for sensitive groups.

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