Firefighting foam floated on Lake Union on Wednesday morning after the Seattle Fire Department extinguished a fire at a Seattle Boat Company storage facility. But while the fire’s effects on the lake aren’t fully known, officials say the foam itself is environmentally safe and will dissolve in the water on its own.
- PUB DATE: 3/23/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Seattle Times - Metered Site

An investigation is underway after a person was found dead inside a garage after South County Fire units put out a housefire on Wednesday. Crews responded to a house fire in the 15300 block of 25th Drive SE in Mill Creek just before 11:30 a.m. When they arrived, they saw smoke and flames coming from the garage of a two-story house.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2023 9:56:54 PM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13 Tacoma

Firefighters are battling a house fire in the Spokane Valley's Northwood neighborhood. According to firefighters with the Spokane Valley Fire District 9 (SVFD9), a house located north of Millwood caught fire early Wednesday morning. Firefighters said nobody was injured and they are trying to extinguish the fire.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2023 6:27:29 PM - SOURCE: KREM TV CBS 2 Spokane

Wildfire mitigation and prevention projects in Washington are set to get $23.4 million in federal money, thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act. The money, distributed through Community Wildfire Defense Grants (CWDG), will help pay for 13 state, local and tribal efforts to deal with and anticipate the Washington’s increasingly active wildfire seasons.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2023 1:55:00 PM - SOURCE: Spokane Public Radio

Two people were rescued from a burning home in Everett that left three people critically injured. A passerby called 911 about a house fire in the 3400 block of Broadway at 4:15 a.m. on Wednesday. Firefighters arrived and went into the home and rescued two people, including one person who was in a wheelchair.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2023 1:30:00 PM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle