Four firefighters were injured Wednesday while working on the Okanogan complex fires. Rick Isaacson, a spokesman for the team managing the fires, said one person was taken to the hospital. “It was a medical injury, not a physical injury,” Isaacson said. He did not know where the person was transported or what kind of medical issue it was.
- PUB DATE: 8/27/2015 11:03:38 AM - SOURCE: Seattle Times

The massive fires burning in Washington state are a "slow-motion disaster," Gov. Jay Inslee said Thursday as he praised crews battling the blazes that have burned an area nearly the size of Rhode Island. Inslee spoke in Chelan before travelling to meet firefighters on the lines that he said were exhausted but committed to stop the blazes.
- PUB DATE: 8/27/2015 10:23:38 AM - SOURCE: KEPR-TV CBS 19

The massive fires burning in Washington state are a "slow-motion disaster," Gov. Jay Inslee said Thursday as he praised crews battling the blazes that have burned an area nearly the size of Rhode Island. Inslee spoke in Chelan before travelling to meet firefighters on the lines that he said were exhausted but committed to stop the blazes.
- PUB DATE: 8/27/2015 10:23:38 AM - SOURCE: KEPR-TV CBS 19

Three Everett firefighters were called out July 1 to help a homeless man who was drunk and lying on a downtown sidewalk. They and others in the department had dealt with the man more than 100 times in the past. One of them, a fire captain, decided to drive the man nearly to Marysville and leave him underneath a bridge with two bottles of water on an 83-degree day.
- PUB DATE: 8/27/2015 6:52:15 AM - SOURCE: Everett Herald

Three Everett firefighters were called out July 1 to help a homeless man who was drunk and lying on a downtown sidewalk. They and others in the department had dealt with the man more than 100 times in the past. One of them, a fire captain, decided to drive the man nearly to Marysville and leave him underneath a bridge with two bottles of water on an 83-degree day.
- PUB DATE: 8/27/2015 6:52:15 AM - SOURCE: Everett Herald