Nearly every day, Mark Frey goes to work at a nondescript Fruitvale Avenue building. Despite being the longest-serving city employee, the 63-year-old isn’t as well-known as others largely because of his humble personality and his role behind the scenes. But that doesn’t mean the Yakima native’s absence wouldn’t be noticed immediately.
- PUB DATE: 7/11/2018 10:38:31 PM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic - Metered Site

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A National Forest fire estimated at six acres in size 12 miles northeast of Leavenworth turned out to be just two acres, and firefighters achieved full containment. The revised estimate Beaver Creek Fire, reported Tuesday morning in the timberlands of the Wenatchee River Ranger District, was reached using GPS.
- PUB DATE: 7/11/2018 9:49:45 AM - SOURCE: iFiberOne

Firefighters have contained 50 percent of a brush fire that spread across thousands of acres in Eastern Washington on Tuesday, shutting down Interstate-90 and forcing a temporary evacuation of a Columbia River town. "We made excellent progress yesterday," Randy Sheppard, a spokesman for the state's Department of Natural Resources (DNR) who's in charge of monitoring the Ryegrass Coulee Fire, said in a phone interview on Wednesday.
- PUB DATE: 7/11/2018 9:05:47 AM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic

One firefighter was killed and several other people, including police officers, firefighters and civilians were injured in an explosion in Sun Prairie Tuesday night. The explosion happened at 7:05 p.m. at the intersection of Main and Bristol streets after police said they were called to the area around 6:20 p.
- PUB DATE: 7/11/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV Channel 3000.com Madison