We’re already starting to see the impact of dry conditions as firefighters are starting to deal with more brush fires, including two in Bellevue this weekend. Bellevue Fire crews responded to reports of trees on fire near a trailhead at 121st Avenue Southeast and Southeast Ninth Place on Sunday afternoon.
- PUB DATE: 6/5/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle

Nine people were displaced, and a family cat killed, in a fire at an Everett duplex early Sunday morning. South County Fire was called to a fire at a duplex on 115th St SE around 1:15 a.m. Firefighters worked to contain the fire to the main unit it started in, and were able to extinguish it before 2 a.
- PUB DATE: 6/4/2023 9:51:50 PM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13 Seattle

Firefighters from Benton County Fire District 1 are investigating after a controlled burn quickly became out of control. Leaders from the Fire District say they responded to a vegetation fire near Badger Road in the Country Heights Estates area just before 10:30 a.m. When crews arrived, they found a neighbor dousing the flames with garden hoses as they approached nearby structures.
- PUB DATE: 6/4/2023 9:31:11 AM - SOURCE: KEPR-TV CBS 19 Pasco

Firefighters in Casa Grande received concerning test results when nearly half of a hazmat team tested for elevated levels of arsenic during their annual heavy metal testing. None of the seven firefighters knew they had high levels of the naturally occurring chemical that can cause cancer. Six of the seven are stationed at the same firehouse in Casa Grande.
- PUB DATE: 6/2/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVK-TV 3 & KPHO-TV CBS 5 Phoenix (AZ Family)

VIDEO: There are currently about 45 fire trucks and engines in service with the Denver Fire Department. But one engine in particular, that no longer fights fires, holds a job that might be comparable in importance. And there was a time that it might have been lost forever. “If it could talk, it would be a bedtime story that would last a decade,” retired Denver firefighter Dan Farley said, smiling when referencing his 'passion' for nearly 15 years.
- PUB DATE: 6/2/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KMGH-TV ABC 7 Denver