Crews rushed to contain a brush fire after two trucks collided on State Route 970, sparking a quick-spreading fire shortly before 9 a.m. Saturday morning. Trooper Wright with the Washington State Patrol said a tanker truck full of fuel hit a pickup truck and rolled over, bursting into flames and causing a fire that quickly spread to nearby brush.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2015 2:05:21 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

A mandatory evacuation has been ordered for some residents near the Wolverine Creek Fire, which is moving toward Lucerne. The Level 3 evacuation notices went out Thursday to Lightning and Riddle Creek cabin owners. A Level 3 evacuation will go into effect Saturday in Holden Village and Lucerne. The U.
- PUB DATE: 7/31/2015 11:37:46 AM - SOURCE: Northwest Cable News

A Yakima family is safe after an early morning house fire Friday. Crews were called to the home on the 400 block of North Fifth Avenue around 3:30 a.m. When the arrived, the attic was on fire and began to burn through to the side of the house. A passerby saw the fire and banged on the door of the house.
- PUB DATE: 7/31/2015 7:45:45 AM - SOURCE: KIMA-TV CBS 29 Yakima

Bellevue firefighters gathered early Thursday morning for a "pushing in" ceremony for the department's first new firetruck in 15 years. "The 'pushing in' ceremony provides an opportunity for all of the crews that work on the ladder trucks and those that helped with the design and creating the specifications to welcome her into the department," said department spokesman Lt.
- PUB DATE: 7/31/2015 7:31:12 AM - SOURCE: Bellevue Reporter

A spectacular fire destroyed a home west of Port Angeles and threatened to burn another house and cause a wildfire. Just before five last evening, Clallam Fire District Two was called to 21 Whispering Firs Road off Lower Elwha Road, where a two story single family home was fully engulfed in flames. The next door neighbor’s home and vehicle were in immediate jeopardy of catching fire.
- PUB DATE: 7/31/2015 5:17:02 AM - SOURCE: KONP-AM 1490