Officials with the Department of Ecology say they plan to start removing the train cars that derailed in Whatcom County earlier this week starting Monday. Meanwhile, the cause of the derailment is still unknown. The tanker train hauling crude oil derailed near the town of Custer, Wash. on Dec. 22. An estimated six train cars derailed, and a spokesperson for BNSF Railways said three cars ruptured, spilling an unknown amount of crude oil onto the ground.
- PUB DATE: 12/28/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle

Fire Capt. Clint Greenley fights fires and paints pictures. Both, he has loved since he was a child. This year, he found a way to bring the two together. With the completion of Fire District 6’s new Station 63 in Salmon Creek earlier this year, the agency found there to be quite a bit of blank wall space.
- PUB DATE: 12/28/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Clark County Today

The Vancouver Fire Department says a mother and two kids escaped a house fire that started on Christmas evening. Crews responded just before 5:00 p.m. to a reported house fire at 610 W 37th Street. The first crew to arrive found a small fire in a living area and were able to quickly extinguish it from outside.
- PUB DATE: 12/26/2020 5:25:03 AM - SOURCE: KPTV FOX 12 Beaverton

Crews responded to a large fire at an auto repair shop just blocks from the Spokane Community College on Friday morning. It took firefighters two hours to suppress the flames, which had spread from the auto repair shop to the roofline of an adjoining office building near North Hough St and E. Trent Ave.
- PUB DATE: 12/25/2020 11:16:09 PM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

VIDEO: The cause of a massive fire that ripped through a historic theatre in Seattle's University District remains under investigation. The Seattle Fire Department responded to a three-alarm fire at the former Seven Gables Theatre in the University District on Thursday. Around 11:45 a.m., smoke and flames were spotted from the roof of the vacant building, which is located at Roosevelt Way NE and NE 50th Street.
- PUB DATE: 12/24/2020 10:16:49 PM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle