Citing concerns about firefighter safety, the Seattle Fire Department has doubled the number of people who will respond to calls at homeless shelters in Pioneer Square. Capt. Shata Stephenson said in a statement that the department has gone from having two or four firefighters respond to “certain locations within Pioneer Square” to “at least six.
- PUB DATE: 6/25/2018 7:51:12 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

When battalion chief David Heizer first started with Spokane Fire 25 years ago, he never thought he'd have to face gunfire on the job -- as crews in Long Beach did Monday morning. Heizer told KXLY times have changed and along with that, comes a change in conversation about the way the department trains its crews.
- PUB DATE: 6/25/2018 7:42:43 PM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4

Local firefighters are now using new technology to track which areas of the state are especially vulnerable to wildfires. It's called aerial mapping and it's been used to map the nearly 20 million acres of forests in Washington state since the 1940s. But now workers with the Department of Natural Resources are putting that mapping technology to use during wildfire season.
- PUB DATE: 6/25/2018 6:47:56 PM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6

A fire near Yakima’s Rotary Lake on Sunday afternoon sent up a plume of smoke and water vapor that could be seen – and smelled – from several parts of the Upper Yakima Valley. The fire was first reported around 3:30 p.m., and it took firefighters from the Yakima Fire Department and four county fire districts about an hour to bring it under control, said Rich Elliott, with Kittitas Valley Fire and Rescue.
- PUB DATE: 6/25/2018 10:35:33 AM - SOURCE: Spokane Spokesman-Review

As of Sunday, fire crews have the Milepost 22 fire near Vantage fully contained. In total, it burned 7,614 acres of sage and brush. Crews believe it was caused by humans but haven't released anymore information on the exact cause. Level 1 evacuation notices were in place for about 30 homes in Vantage last week, but no buildings were damaged by the fire.
- PUB DATE: 6/25/2018 10:14:46 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4