Ten businesses in a Federal Way strip mall were destroyed in a fire Sunday morning. The call came in around 4:20 a.m. after a person reported seeing smoke coming out of a coffee shop at a strip mall near The Commons. Firefighters from several districts quickly responded and crews spent several hours battling the flames.
- PUB DATE: 5/21/2017 7:44:05 PM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5

Mark Martinez plans to move his family’s 4,000 head of sheep to grazing areas west of Naches and north of Ellensburg next week before fire season gets underway. But given the unusually rainy spring, he’s worried about just how much cheatgrass has grown in those areas. “Especially with the (warm) temperatures forecast next week,” he said recently.
- PUB DATE: 5/20/2017 4:48:52 PM - SOURCE: Mid-Columbia Tri-City Herald

A 21-year-old man is dead after being pinned under a rock off Highway 2 near Index, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office. Investigators say the man was scrambling across a rockfield near Heybrook Lookout when a rock fell on him. He was with three other friends hiking the back side of Heybrook Lookout, just off the logging road, according to Snohomish County Fire District 7.
- PUB DATE: 5/20/2017 7:28:40 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7

A King County Superior Court jury on Thursday awarded $9.5 million to the family of a Kingston man who died in a collision with a fire truck. On the morning of July 4, 2014, Jason Foster was was riding a motor scooter on Miller Bay Road, approaching its intersection with West Kingston Road. The traffic signal turned yellow, and he continued.
- PUB DATE: 5/20/2017 5:42:19 AM - SOURCE: Kitsap Sun