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Posted: Jun 7, 2023

VIDEO: 1 dead, 2 injured after car flips off ramp in Washington, D.C., police say

The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a deadly car crash on Interstate 395 in Southwest D.C. on Sunday. At approximately 7:45 p.m., a Hyundai Elantra was traveling south in the Ninth Street tunnel, police said. The driver of the car began to take the westbound ramp and struck the jersey wall twice for reasons unknown, causing the car to crash over the wall and onto the southbound I-395 below.
- PUB DATE: 6/7/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJLA-TV ABC 7 Washington DC
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Posted: Jun 7, 2023

Big Fires in 1889 devastated three cities in Washington state

PHOTOS: When Washington became a state in November 1889, that wasn’t the only big news story that year. In the final spring and summer of Washington’s territorial era, big fires ravaged major sections of downtowns on both sides of the Cascades, from Seattle, to Ellensburg, to Spokane. Seattle’s fire struck on the breezy, blue-sky afternoon of Thursday, June 6, 1889.
- PUB DATE: 6/7/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: My Northwest
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Posted: Jun 7, 2023

New plane will allow Washington crews to spot, start fighting fires more quickly

VIDEO: Washington state firefighters are getting help from high-tech eyes in the sky. The first of two Kodiak K-100s arrived in Olympia last month and has already flown above wildfires on Orcas Island and in Concrete. They travel faster and fly longer than most of the state’s other aerial firefighting tools, but the selling point for state Chief of Air Operations David Ritchie is the plane’s camera.
- PUB DATE: 6/7/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle
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Posted: Jun 7, 2023

Big fires devastated Seattle, Ellensburg, Spokane in 1889

PHOTOS: When Washington became a state in November 1889, that wasn’t the only big news story that year. In the final spring and summer of Washington’s territorial era, big fires ravaged major sections of downtowns on both sides of the Cascades, from Seattle, to Ellensburg, to Spokane. Seattle’s fire struck on the breezy, blue-sky afternoon of Thursday, June 6, 1889.
- PUB DATE: 6/7/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: My Northwest
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Posted: Jun 7, 2023

Grays Harbor firefighters, deputies respond to suspicious railroad trestle fire

Officials responded to a railroad trestle fire in Grays Harbor Saturday morning, according to the Grays Harbor Sheriff’s Office. At about 3 p.m. on June 3, deputies went to a fire on railroad tracks near State Route 12 at milepost 26 in Malone, about halfway between Olympia and Aberdeen. When deputies arrived, they found a train trestle that runs parallel to State Route 12 was on fire with heavy smoke covering the road.
- PUB DATE: 6/7/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle
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