Firefighters say a wildfire between Naches and Selah has burned an estimated 5,200 acres. Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste authorized state firefighting resources Sunday at 7 p.m. to help local firefighters battling the Conrad Fire burning at the Wenas Valley. State mobilization was authorized when flames had reached 1,500 acres.
- PUB DATE: 7/3/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIMA-TV

When Kristie Worthey heard the explosion Monday afternoon she and her neighbors rushed outside. They were met with ash and smoke from the hillside behind their building, which houses condos and apartments. “Within five minutes the flames started coming up and you could see the flames coming all the way up our trees,” Worthey said.
- PUB DATE: 7/2/2018 9:12:08 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

Local firefighters responded to the Liberty Lake Regional Park on Saturday after a mountain biker reported he was lost somewhere in the park and injured. The mountain biker, a developmentally delayed teenager, called 911 just before 5: 30 p.m. on Saturday. The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office launched the Air 2 helicopter and was able to locate the teen from above based on a GPS ping from his phone, about five miles into the trail system.
- PUB DATE: 7/2/2018 2:21:50 PM - SOURCE: KAYU-TV MyFox Spokane

The village will temporarily cut back on its paid firetruck drivers for part of June and August, but a report by the New York State Financial Restructuring Board for Local Governments recommends cutting all of its paid firetruck drivers and using only volunteers. The village owns the fire house, three firetrucks and pays four truck drivers.
- PUB DATE: 7/2/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times

At 4:42 p.m. Saturday, June 30, a memorial bell cut through the silence of the courthouse plaza, honoring the fallen 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots killed five years ago fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire, ringing once for each name. Andrew Ashcraft, Robert Caldwell, Travis Carter, Dustin DeFord, Christopher MacKenzie, Eric Marsh, Grant McKee, Sean Misner, Scott Norris, Wade Parker, John Percin Jr.
- PUB DATE: 7/2/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Courier