Firefighters have been busy trying to douse a fire that was burning a pile of scrap metal at a Tacoma metal yard. The fire at Simon Metals on E. River Street broke out around 2 a.m. and sent a billow of acrid smoke across the Tacoma tideflats that was visible from I-5. Firefighters got the blaze mostly knocked down about 45 minutes later, but the pile has been smoldering since and continues to belch out smoke into mid Monday morning as firefighters dismantled the pile to douse the hot spots.
- PUB DATE: 9/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

While temperatures begin to cool down as we head into fall, there are several fires crews are still working to put them out. Here are the five biggest, and how they're looking now. The Crescent Mountain fire burning in the Okanogan-Wenatchee forest is the largest fire at 51,584 acres. As of Sunday it is 75 percent contained.
- PUB DATE: 9/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KING 5 News

LeCenter (MN) Area Fire Department pumper. Kenworth T880 Full Response™ crew cab and chassis. Cummins ISX12 500-hp engine; Waterous CSU 1,500-gpm pump; UPF Poly 1,000-gallon tank.

A man grinding metal started a half acre brush fire off of Road 96 in Pasco on Sunday afternoon. Crews were called out to the fire at around 4 p.m. They say the man was using a piece of equipment to grind metal when the grass caught on fire, and the high winds caused the blaze to quickly spread. Firefighters were on the scene for a couple of hours trying to put out the blaze and making sure there were no more hot spots.
- PUB DATE: 9/16/2018 6:29:04 PM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

Three people narrowly escaped getting caught in a fire Saturday afternoon on the Yakima Greenway. The people were inside a small encampment between trees when firefighters alerted them to the fire, said Yakima Fire Capt. Brandon Dormbush. Dormbush said the people were gathering their belongings and barely made it out, with 15-foot-tall flames close behind them.
- PUB DATE: 9/15/2018 11:19:27 PM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic - Metered Site