PHOTO: A fire in Soap Lake completely destroyed an apartment building and left at least one person with serious burns. The fire reportedly broke out in the north building at the Lake Apartments on Daisy Street about 4:30 a.m. Sunday, according to Grant County Fire District No. 7. Grant County Fire District No.
- PUB DATE: 5/12/2019 10:48:38 PM - SOURCE: Columbia Basin Herald

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Fire season has started and one area in Washington state is already getting hit with a wildfire. Firefighters are working to put out a wildfire near Oroville in northern Washington. The Okanogan County Emergency Management Team released a Level 1 Advisory to residents. The fire is close to Abie Lane, about 10 miles south of Oroville.
- PUB DATE: 5/12/2019 6:01:21 PM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

Toppenish Fire officials are looking into a suspicious warehouse fire near US-97 and State Route 22. Around 10 a.m. Sunday, firefighters were called out to the warehouse fire. The building was vacant for 25 years, until recently. A semi-truck and car were inside the two-story building. While firefighters put out the fire, the roof collapsed.
- PUB DATE: 5/12/2019 1:51:52 PM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

With another sunny weekend expected, weather forecasters and firefighters warn residents to take care around water in Washington, which has drowning rates among the highest in the U.S. Despite the warm weather, many lakes and rivers remain deceptively cold, National Weather Service meteorologists said, and several water-related incidents have been reported recently in Whatcom County — including stranded boaters, a toddler who fell into a pond and a boater who nearly died when his sailboat flipped on Lake Whatcom.
- PUB DATE: 5/12/2019 5:34:46 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald