A firefighter is in a fight for his life as he battles the final stages of cancer. Donovan Eckhardt has only been given weeks to live and now a community is coming together to honor and help a man who spent years helping others. Members of the Renton Fire Department gave a hero’s farewell to one of their own.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2015 7:38:54 PM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13

Yakima firefighters have been spread thin over the past few weeks as they've battled dozens of fires and last night was no exception, as firefighters responded to three simultaneous fires in the city. Tuesday night another string of fires sent firefighters to three different locations, two of them started within minutes of each other and the other sparked just an hour later.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2015 6:46:22 PM - SOURCE: NBCRightNow.com

Fire Marshals are investigating whether transient campers set a fire which started in a remote field and spread quickly over four acres toward dozens of homes in the Klahanie neighborhood near Sammamish. Eastside Deputy Fire Chief Michael Boyle told KIRO 7 it took 50 firefighters, eleven trucks, and 300 feet of fire hose to contain the flames, which spread in deep peat moss in a dry wooded area.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2015 9:21:33 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7

The wildfire danger is continuing to grow day by day - even in suburban Western Washington neighborhoods where brush fires are practically unheard-of. Just in the past 12 hours, a wildfire flared up in Issaquah's Klahanie neighborhood, creeping closer to people's homes. And a Tuesday evening fire near a University Place cemetery burned three acres of land before fire crews could get a handle on it.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2015 7:56:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

Yakima firefighters responded to three fires Tuesday night, continuing a recent string of nearly simultaneous calls that have at times stretched resources thin. The two grass fires and a shed fire were reported over more than three hours starting at about 7:20 p.m., according to a news release from the Yakima Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2015 7:42:47 AM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic