Seattle police are trying to figure out if a 32-year-old man arrested Tuesday night in connection with a series of suspected arsons in the city's Montlake neighborhood might be connected to any other fires in the city. Detectives will be handling the follow-up investigation, a police spokesman told KOMO News on Wednesday.
- PUB DATE: 9/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

A 100-acre fire burned about 5 miles northeast of Spangle and about 20 miles south of Spokane Wednesday afternoon, threatening structures, according to the Washington Department of Natural Resources. The Heaton Road wildfire burned through wheat and timber, following its start around 2:50 p.m. Wednesday, said Thomas Kyle-Milward, DNR communications consultant.
- PUB DATE: 9/2/2020 5:04:11 PM - SOURCE: Spokane Spokesman-Review - Metered Site

The Wenatchee Valley Technical Skills Center’s Fire Science program recently received its largest donation yet: a 1984 Seagrave fire engine. The donation, made by Chelan County Fire District 1, is the first fire truck the program has received and the latest contribution by Central Washington fire departments that fuel the fire science program.
- PUB DATE: 9/2/2020 3:18:18 PM - SOURCE: Wenatchee World

Two people were killed in a fire Tuesday night in the Sifton area, just outside of Vancouver city limits. Vancouver fire crews were dispatched at 7:16 p.m. to 6901 N.E. 149th Court for a report of a residential fire with people trapped inside. Firefighters found an unconscious woman inside the home under rubble, after the ceiling collapsed, and an already deceased man.
- PUB DATE: 9/2/2020 12:19:11 PM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian

VIDEO: The FDNY put a rarely used maneuver into action to save a woman who was hanging from a 16th-floor window during a high-rise fire in Manhattan. The fire was reported Tuesday near Lenox Avenue and West 135th Street just before 1:30 p.m. Firefighters found a woman panicking at a window on the 16th floor of the Lenox Terrace Apartments and decided to do something they rarely do -- a roof rope rescue from the 17th floor.
- PUB DATE: 9/2/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABC-TV ABC 11 New York