Crews monitoring NCW’s largest wildfire this morning set a Level 2 “be ready” evacuation status for areas near Mazama and Winthrop as the blaze began moving south in two mountain drainages. Managers of the Diamond Creek Fire scheduled a 6 p.m. community meeting today at the Mazama Community Club, 512 Goat Creek Road, to outline the situation as the fire moves south in Monument Creek drainage and along Pat Creek near Mazama.
- PUB DATE: 9/14/2017 4:32:45 AM - SOURCE: Wenatchee World

The Roslyn City Council approved four contracts Tuesday night to help fund a fire break north of town, which was constructed earlier this month. Over Labor Day weekend, ember showers from the Jolly Mountain Fire were forecast to come down around Roslyn, which prompted an urgent need for a new fire break.
- PUB DATE: 9/14/2017 2:58:12 AM - SOURCE: Ellensburg Daily Record

With Tropical Storm Harvey lashing at his city and no official word from headquarters, Houston Fire Capt. Scott Wilkey took matters into his own hands and drove the 35 miles from his home to the Houston fire station he commands. It was Saturday, Aug. 26, and meteorologists were warning of catastrophic flooding in the city.
- PUB DATE: 9/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: USA Today

Mesa firefighter Jesse Simpson, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, knew he had to do something, anything, to help “George,” a fellow veteran who had lost everything. In May, Simpson’s crew found George sitting on a toilet in a rundown west Mesa apartment that had been heavily damaged when a maintenance crew accidentally struck a water pipe, causing a flood.
- PUB DATE: 9/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Valley Tribune