Posted: Sep 8, 2020
VIDEO: Deputies tell 4 News Now that 70-80 percent of the homes in Malden have been destroyed by a fire sweeping through the area.
Level 3 Evacuations were issued for residents in the area, but within hours, most of the town had burned to the ground, with powerful winds pushing the flames and smoke southwest.
- PUB DATE: 9/8/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane
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Posted: Sep 8, 2020
Eight homes were destroyed in Graham Monday night as multiple brush fires exploded around the South Sound amid a rare September wind storm that has knocked out power to tens of thousands.
Luckily there have been no reports of injuries.
In Graham, firefighters were busy Monday evening responding to several brush fires in the area in windy conditions that had knocked over multiple power lines.
- PUB DATE: 9/8/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000
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Posted: Sep 7, 2020
A wildfire burning north of Highway 2 near Airway Heights is now under control, according to Spokane County Fire District 10.
According to fire personnel, several structures were lost—and it is not yet known if homes were destroyed. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. An emergency alert was sent out to Spokane residents Monday afternoon, as evacuations have been issued for a fire burning north of Highway 2 near Christensen Road in Airway Heights.
- PUB DATE: 9/7/2020 4:51:45 PM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane
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Posted: Sep 4, 2020
A firefighter battling a wildfire in Washington state near the Canadian border lost his wife and three children in an early-morning blaze that destroyed their new home.
The family's single-wide trailer was almost completely consumed when firefighters and sheriff's deputies responded to the Green Acres Mobile Home Park in Benton City, Washington, just before 1 a.
- PUB DATE: 9/4/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CNN
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Posted: Sep 4, 2020
VIDEO: If you came across this vehicle, you might have trouble deciphering exactly what it is. It's towering, it has wheels, but also, a propeller.
"We pride ourselves in preserving the history of the firefighter," Joe Kufrovich of the Schuylkill Historical Fire Society said. "That would belong to the Reading Scuba Team in the city of Reading.
- PUB DATE: 9/4/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNEP-TV ABC 16 Scranton
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