Temperatures will start to soar this week as the summer heat continues. One area that firefighters are worried about is Dishman Hills. They’ve been there for six fires this year. “It’s only mid-August and there’s still plenty of time left in the summer,” said Austin Hatten, a Washington state Department of Natural Resources forest technician.
- PUB DATE: 8/16/2020 5:42:12 PM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

A scary afternoon for some people living in west Spokane. The Sunset Fire forced evacuations for about 20-25 homes near Sunset Highway. It burned about 14 acres of land- about the size of nine city blocks. No one was hurt, and no homes were lost or damaged. But, this is just the start of wildfire season and some extreme heat is in the forecast.
- PUB DATE: 8/15/2020 12:40:46 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

It was the worst of the worst. Good young men. Running for their lives. Nowhere to hide. The fire was relentless. This month marks the 83rd memorial anniversary of the worst forest fire disaster in Wyoming history when it comes to loss of firefighter lives. In an obscure and difficult place to reach called Blackwater, a group of forest rangers and Civilian Conservation Corps firefighters lost their lives on Aug.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cowboy State Daily

When everyone who tests positive for coronavirus in your community gets a call from a public health worker asking them about their contacts, and those contacts are then asked to quarantine, that can be a powerful way to keep the virus from spreading. But contact tracing can do more than that: At scale, the data gathered in those calls also offers vital information about where transmission is happening in a community.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: National Public Radio

VIDEO: Prankster Stephen Gilchrist Glover, better known as Steve-O, was removed from a Hollywood billboard to which he taped himself Thursday. Glover posted a selfie on Instagram, showing several layers of what appears to be black tape covering his body from his armpits to his thighs. Video of him being removed from the billboard showed he only wore what appeared to be white underwear underneath the tape.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCAL-TV CBS 9 Los Angeles