As health experts gather more data and continue to learn about COVID-19, certain protocols and regulations are changing. According to the CDC and local health experts, it’s now okay to go back to work just 10 days after testing positive for the virus. That’s not the only change — Requiring a negative test result to return to work is no longer encouraged.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRON -TV 4 San Francisco

PHOTOS: It was just after 9 AM and already the temperatures were in the 90s. A work crew was pin-welding insulation onto a gigantic 5-million-gallon fuel storage tank in the tank farm next to the Canal Electric Plant. But the crew had not properly grounded the tank before they began work. That mistake would cause one of the largest fires the Sandwich Fire Department has ever battled.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Sandwich Enterprise - Metered Site

One person was found injured after a fire burned a home in South Seattle early Friday morning. The fire broke out just after 12:30 a.m. in the 8600 block of Renton Avenue South, according to Seattle Fire officials. Firefighters arrived to find flames shooting from the home and one of the home's residents outside suffering from injuries.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

The East Beach Road Fire is now 75 percent contained, the Western Washington Type 3 Incident Management Team overseeing the operations said Thursday. The fire remained at 84 acres with 84 firefighters at the blaze. The fire was reported July 29 just north of East Beach Road near Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Peninsula Daily News - Metered Site

The City of Seattle will open a free walk-up COVID-19 testing site at Rainier Beach High School on Friday. It is the third free testing site the city has opened, with plans for a fourth site in southwest Seattle. Starting August 7, the community testing site will operate from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle