About 250 firefighters are now on the scene of the Rock Creek Fire, which has burned 660 acres of timber on the Naches Ranger District to the north of State Route 410. That's about double the personnel from Sunday and a Type II incident management team took over the fire this morning, said spokesman Randy Sheppard.
- PUB DATE: 9/12/2016 10:29:31 AM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic

Four people alerted by smoke alarms escaped a fire Monday morning that gutted a home in the Lake Hills neighborhood. None of the residents of the home in the 1300 block of 144th Avenue Southeast was injured in the fire. Firefighters arrived to find flames coming from the house. They extinguished the blaze but not before it badly damaged the home.
- PUB DATE: 9/12/2016 9:53:01 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

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The sound of bagpipes filled the air around an I-beam from Ground Zero at the Francis Street Park on Sunday, marking the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks amid an impromptu ceremony. Ricky McKenzie, a retired Coast Guard Veteran, has played his highland bagpipes at the Port Angeles 9/11 memorial for the past three years.
- PUB DATE: 9/12/2016 7:23:49 AM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News