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

A fire destroyed a motor home Thursday morning in Vancouver’s West Minnehaha neighborhood. Vancouver Fire Department crews were dispatched at 10:26 a.m. to 4312 N.E. 12th Ave., for a report of a fire. No one was home at the time, and the neighbors who called in the fire thought it was a brush fire initially, fire department spokesman Bryan Fredrickson said.
- PUB DATE: 8/6/2020 11:53:09 AM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian - Metered Site

Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation Wednesday aimed at protecting police and other first responders from bias-motivated crimes in Georgia, capping a series of controversial moves by state Republican leaders that nearly derailed passage of a separate bill outlawing hate crimes. The bill Kemp signed into law sets out punishments for those who commit crimes against police officers, firefighters and medics because of their “actual or perceived employment as a first responder.
- PUB DATE: 8/6/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Jackson Progress

Four firefighters were overcome by fumes after stumbling onto a drug mill operating in the basement of a Paterson home. The firefighters were responding to a small fire in the basement of the Illinois Avenue home when they were overcome just before 1:30 a.m. Thursday. They evacuated the structure and collapsed on the driveway.
- PUB DATE: 8/6/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABC-TV ABC 7 New York