Washington's horrific wildfires this season are inspiring help from across America. But a fundraising website asking for cash donations for a Washington wildfire relief effort is drawing criticism and questions. A KOMO 4 investigation has learned that claims and photos on the website are not accurate.
- PUB DATE: 9/8/2015 7:41:19 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

It was the scorched earth that sobered both men as they drove east toward Tonasket. In late August, local business owners Rob Paylor and Patrick Durney loaded up their trucks with a week of food to feed Eastern Washington fire fighters in what has become the largest forest fire in our state’s history.
- PUB DATE: 9/8/2015 1:15:31 PM - SOURCE: The North Coast News

It was the scorched earth that sobered both men as they drove east toward Tonasket. In late August, local business owners Rob Paylor and Patrick Durney loaded up their trucks with a week of food to feed Eastern Washington fire fighters in what has become the largest forest fire in our state’s history.
- PUB DATE: 9/8/2015 1:15:31 PM - SOURCE: The North Coast News

The Okanogan complex fire, which has injured seven and destroyed or damaged 123 residences to date, has burned 148,780 acres and is 70 percent contained. Some 1,300 firefighters are still battling the fires, which have cost $30.3 million to date, according a Monday report from the fire-incident command.
- PUB DATE: 9/8/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: seattle times

When a winter storm struck in the early 1990s, dumping snow and exasperating the Puget Sound region, a Kitsap County Sheriff's Office repeater tower on Gold Mountain went dark, leaving communities like Kingston, Olalla and Seabeck out of contact. Dean Heistand, now technical system supervisor for Kitsap's 911 service, CenCom, strapped tools and test equipment onto his back, snowshoes on his feet and went trekking up the mountain with a deputy to bring the tower back to life.
- PUB DATE: 9/8/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse