Kyler Olson and his mother Jaime Olson said when they saw smoke coming from a hill near their home they called 911 and rushed up the hill to see what was going on. "When we got up there, there were three people (who had gotten) out of the house," said Jaime Olson. The three people who escaped were an elderly man, elderly woman and their adult son.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2015 7:42:16 PM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7

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