Hannah Salinas said she didn’t think before leaping. It didn’t matter that the Vancouver teen was standing about 15 feet above the water at the Camas Potholes, an area near Round Lake known as a place where accidents and even fatalities are not uncommon. It didn’t matter that she might get hurt. At that moment, all Salinas, 17, and her friends, Hillary Darland, 18, and Maddy Gregory, 17, knew was that they had to help.
- PUB DATE: 8/13/2020 6:28:47 PM - SOURCE: Camas-Washougal Post-Record

GPS mapping of the Lower Coyote Creek Fire now put the acreage burned at 2,580 acres. Previous estimates were at 4,500 acres for the fire burning in sage, grass and trees southwest of Nespelem on the Colville Indian Reservation. The fire's cause is under investigation; it was reported Aug. 9. On Aug.
- PUB DATE: 8/13/2020 1:30:06 PM - SOURCE: Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle

The city of Buckley didn’t have to look far to find its new fire chief, promoting Eric Skogen from the No. 2 job to the fire department’s top post. The fire chief position became available following the retirement of Alan Predmore, who spent most of his working life in a Buckley uniform. Following 13 years as a city police officer he switched to the fire/EMT operation and led the department for 23 years.
- PUB DATE: 8/13/2020 1:05:09 PM - SOURCE: Enumclaw Courier Herald

VIDEO: Firefighters fought a difficult blaze Wednesday night in the Springhill Drive loop just west of the SR 28 and 31st St. NW intersection in East Wenatchee. The fire’s incident commander, Cam Phillips, says Douglas County Fire District 2 was notified of the blaze at 8:26 p.m. Phillips says the owners of the home had a camper and truck parked five feet away from the single-story house; he believes one of the two caught fire.
- PUB DATE: 8/13/2020 11:01:58 AM - SOURCE: iFiberOne

Chelan Fire and Rescue crews were called out to a second-alarm structure fire in the 400 block of Wyoming St. in Chelan Falls around 2:00 a.m. Thursday morning. Chief Mark Donnell says the first responders found a 10-by-30 mobile home that was fully engulfed in flames. “Basically, it burned the trailer down to the ground and we put it out.
- PUB DATE: 8/13/2020 9:27:26 AM - SOURCE: KPQ-AM 560