Late-July 1910 saw the Harbor beset by fires, not particularly unusual during the summer in small timber towns. It was the massive holocaust in Hoquiam on July 22, 1910 that killed two and injured many more that held the headlines when the substantial, picturesque four-story Hotel Hoquiam was reduced to rubble in an early morning blaze.
- PUB DATE: 7/27/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Daily World

Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue (CKFR) is preparing a bond that would allow for facilities improvements and new fire stations that could go to voters on the November 3 general election ballot. The bond, if approved by the district's commissioners on Monday and approved in the fall, would begin to be collected in spring of 2021.
- PUB DATE: 7/27/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kitsap Sun

A 13-month-old boy found Monday night floating in Dyes Inlet was revived by medics who happened to be nearby after being called to a neighbor's house. “It was a miracle,” said Ron Templeton, whose grandson Teddy has been checked by doctors and is doing fine. Kitsap County sheriff's deputies and medics from Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue had been called at about 8:30 p.
- PUB DATE: 7/27/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kitsap Sun

A Rainier man was found dead after his family’s mobile home caught fire early Saturday, Thurston County Sheriff’s Office said. About 12:30 a.m. Saturday, the sheriff’s office and Southeast Thurston Fire Authority responded to a fire on the 900 block of Tipsoo Loop North in Rainier and arrived to find a mobile home engulfed in flames, according to a post on the Sheriff’s Office’s Facebook page.
- PUB DATE: 7/26/2020 9:15:06 AM - SOURCE: Olympian

Two men were rescued from a residential apartment fire early Saturday in Wenatchee. A third man was able to escape on his own according to Chelan County District 1 spokeswoman Kay McKellar. Firefighters were dispatched to a two-story apartment building in the 600 block of Orondo Avenue about 2:15AM.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2020 4:41:32 PM - SOURCE: KPQ-AM 560