An “improperly abandoned” Puget Sound Energy (PSE) gas pipeline was the cause of an explosion in Greenwood that leveled two buildings and damaged nearly three dozen businesses in March 2016, a new report finds. PSE could be subject to up to $3.2 million in penalties. The Washington Utilities And Transportation Commission released the report Tuesday.
- PUB DATE: 9/20/2016 4:40:51 PM - SOURCE: CBS Seattle KSTW-TV & KPTK-AM

Police are looking into a suspicious fire that burned a car outside a Pasco Housing Authority complex on Monday night. The fire was noticed about midnight in the backseat of a 1994 Chevy Lumina parked on the 200 block of West Margaret Street. Flames engulfed the car, police said. The fire is under investigation by police and fire officials.
- PUB DATE: 9/20/2016 10:46:49 AM - SOURCE: Mid-Columbia Tri-City Herald

Police are looking for an injured 50-year-old woman who is a possible suspect in an overnight arson at an Everett home. The incident unfolded late Monday or early Tuesday at a home near Hawthorne Elementary School in the 1200 block of Poplar Street. Investigators later said they were looking for a woman who is considered a "possible suspect" in the arson, which scorched the entryway to a home there.
- PUB DATE: 9/20/2016 9:47:58 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

Residents at a Seattle apartment complex said they started knocking on each other’s doors as soon as the fire alarms went off. Tenants evacuated early Tuesday morning as flames burned through portions of the second and third floors of the Union View Apartment complex, Seattle Fire said. The building's sprinkler system extinguished the fire.
- PUB DATE: 9/20/2016 7:42:11 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000