Police and firefighters scrambling to put out dozens of suspicious fires in Pasco this summer have noticed a dramatic drop in the number of them. That change seems to have come right after the arrest of a man who appeared in court again Thursday morning. Right now it's hard to get any clear answers from Pasco Police or the Pasco Fire Department regarding the investigation of 44-year-old Abel Contreras.
- PUB DATE: 9/3/2015 7:43:05 PM - SOURCE: NBCRightNow.com

Police and firefighters scrambling to put out dozens of suspicious fires in Pasco this summer have noticed a dramatic drop in the number of them. That change seems to have come right after the arrest of a man who appeared in court again Thursday morning. Right now it's hard to get any clear answers from Pasco Police or the Pasco Fire Department regarding the investigation of 44-year-old Abel Contreras.
- PUB DATE: 9/3/2015 7:43:05 PM - SOURCE: NBCRightNow.com

A Clallam County Sheriff’s deputy evacuated a resident and his pets from a mobile home as it caught fire from a blaze that destroyed an empty cedar house on Wednesday. At 10:32 p.m. Wednesday a neighbor called 9-1-1 to report a fire in the empty house at 113 S. Brook Ave., east of Port Angeles. Deputy Matt Murphy, who was on patrol nearby, was the first to reach the address, arriving within a minute of the report, said Brian King, chief criminal deputy for the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office.
- PUB DATE: 9/3/2015 1:35:33 PM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

A Clallam County Sheriff’s deputy evacuated a resident and his pets from a mobile home as it caught fire from a blaze that destroyed an empty cedar house on Wednesday. At 10:32 p.m. Wednesday a neighbor called 9-1-1 to report a fire in the empty house at 113 S. Brook Ave., east of Port Angeles. Deputy Matt Murphy, who was on patrol nearby, was the first to reach the address, arriving within a minute of the report, said Brian King, chief criminal deputy for the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office.
- PUB DATE: 9/3/2015 1:35:33 PM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

Fire officials say they're making progress on Washington's massive wildfires in central and eastern Washington, but warmer drier weather is expected to make things more challenging over the next few days. Two big fires burning on the Colville Indian Reservation are now more than 50 percent contained, but fire officials say there are still active areas within the interior of the North Star and Tunk Block fires, which together have burned nearly 575 square miles.
- PUB DATE: 9/3/2015 11:11:54 AM - SOURCE: KEPR-TV CBS 19