A local woman who filed suit after she was wrongly investigated and charged with first-degree felony arson will receive a $100,000 settlement. The Seattle Times reports that the Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority has settled the civil-rights lawsuit with 66-year-old Linda Poplawski of Des Moines. Authorities say the arson charges resulted from a November 2016 fire in a Kent strip mall that leveled a Dollar Tree store and damaged two other businesses.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2019 11:56:27 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

Lake Wenatchee Fire and Rescue (LWFR) is one of the fire districts in the state to receive a Department of Natural Resources surplus wildland brush engine at no cost. The selection process to receive an engine is based on fire districts that demonstrate a strong partnership with the DNR and also the community’s risk with wildland fires.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2019 9:44:41 AM - SOURCE: KPQ-AM 560

Right now firefighters are looking into what caused a fire that destroyed a grain elevator in the small town of Winona just outside of Endicott. The first call came in just after 1 p.m. this afternoon with crews responding from all over Whitman County. A fire quickly engulfing a 65-year-old grain elevator.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2019 6:03:56 AM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6

Fire District 7 is returning to the voters to ask for a levy lid lift, after a summertime funding request was defeated at the polls. The levy on voters’ current ballots requires a simple majority to lift the lid for one year, then the levy rate will fall after that based on assessed value, said Heather Chadwick, public information and education officer for the district.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2019 2:06:48 AM - SOURCE: Snohomish County News

During a two-alarm fire in Washougal that damaged several businesses, someone captured the moment when two firefighters took the time to save an American flag from the flames. The fire sparked by some sheets that spontaneously combusted at a local laundromat, according to the Camas-Washougal Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2019 1:43:08 AM - SOURCE: KPTV-TV FOX 12 Portland