Hawaii is regularly seeing triple-digit increases in COVID-19 infections, a situation that underscores just how fast the virus is spreading in Hawaii. Scientists actually track that rate of spread ? or reproduction rate. And experts say that Hawaii now has the highest reproduction rate in the nation, at 1.
- PUB DATE: 8/12/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hawaii News Now

If you've noticed the skies have been a little bit hazy (when they're not covered in marine layer clouds), you can blame huge wildfires burning in Russia. The jet stream is carrying smoke from the blazes in Siberia up across the interior of Alaska and then blowing it southeast over the Gulf of Alaska and into Western Washington, according to the National Weather Service.
- PUB DATE: 8/12/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

The Enumclaw Fire Department was one of nine departments to send aid to a brush fire in Bonney Lake last week. According to Bonney Lake’s East Pierce Fire and Rescue, the fire — which was located just past the state Route 410/Veterans Memorial Drive intersection, on the downhill trek to Sumner — was reported around 2 p.
- PUB DATE: 8/11/2020 1:05:48 PM - SOURCE: Enumclaw Courier Herald

VIDEO: The driver of a big rig was seriously hurt in a Tuesday morning crash involving three fire trucks that shut down a portion of Interstate 85 in Rowan County for hours. The crash happened shortly before 5 a.m. in the southbound lanes near mile marker 82, north of Long Ferry Road and near the Yadkin River.
- PUB DATE: 8/11/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSCO-TV ABC 9 Charlotte

North Metro firefighter Matt Chan was crowned champion during Monday night's season finale of "The Titans Games" on NBC. Chan and Dani Speegle each took home the title after competing among a field of elite athletes in a series of intense athletic competitions. Along with the title, Chan and Speegle are each taking home a $100,000 cash prize.
- PUB DATE: 8/11/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KUSA-TV NBC 9 Denver