A motor home caught fire, sending a plume of smoke into the sky, Tuesday afternoon while traveling on Columbia Way along the Vancouver waterfront. The fire occurred at about 4 p.m. The owner of the motor home, Jill Sage, said she was driving down the road and smelled smoke. She and the other occupants got out of the vehicle before it burst into flames.
- PUB DATE: 10/27/2020 6:44:36 PM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian - Metered Site

A man has been arrested for setting a fire at the Paulsen Building early Tuesday morning. Police arrested 32-year-old Charles Campbell for second-degree arson and a felony Department of Corrections warrant. Authorities say they checked surveillance video from a business nearby, and officers at the downtown precinct found Campbell near Third and Howard later Tuesday morning.
- PUB DATE: 10/27/2020 6:30:40 PM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

The Yakima Fire Department handled three fires over four hours Monday, including a kitchen fire that destroyed two units in an apartment building. The string of fires started a little after 9 a.m. with a brush fire on the Yakima Greenway, according to a news release from the department. That fire burned about 3,600 square feet of heavy brush near the Valley Mall Boulevard exit on Interstate 82.
- PUB DATE: 10/27/2020 11:55:32 AM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic

At two upcoming meetings, the Arlington City Council will discuss asking voters to consider annexing its fire department to North County Fire & EMS. The purpose of annexation would be to provide a sustainable funding source for fire and emergency medical service (EMS). The City Council will hold meetings on October 26 and November 2 to discuss the issue of annexation.
- PUB DATE: 10/27/2020 7:18:20 AM - SOURCE: Arlington, WA

Bret Black hopes to finish out his firefighting career the way he started it: working hand-in-hand with both volunteers and professionals. “That’s how I started my career — in what we call a combination department — and it’s how I had always hoped to cap my career,” Black said Monday after he accepted an offer to become the new chief of East Jefferson Fire Rescue (EJFR), which has 33 career firefighters and 40 volunteers, according to its 2019 annual report.
- PUB DATE: 10/27/2020 1:55:23 AM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News