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

With more multi-story buildings going up on the Long Beach Peninsula, a ladder truck recently acquired by Pacific County Fire District 1 through a federal military surplus program is an important addition to the department’s fleet of firefighting engines and trucks, Fire Chief Jacob Brundage says. For the past decade, the department has relied on the Long Beach Fire Department’s ladder truck.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: daily astorian

As a frightening story in Monday's Washington Post shows, the American West is burning up. And the sad fact about wildfires is the more the West burns, the less money the federal government has to pay for it. In fact, the federal government hasn't had enough money to pay for fighting wildfires in at least a decade.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the washington post

A new report obtained first by FOX 5 blames a delayed response by D.C. Fire and EMS to a choking toddler on both technical errors and human mistakes. The 18-month-old boy went into cardiac arrest and later died after waiting more than eleven minutes for help to arrive. As FOX 5 first reported back in March, help was in a Tenleytown fire station just three blocks away, but was never put on the call.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTTG-TV MyFox 5 DC