Fire Marshals are investigating whether transient campers set a fire which started in a remote field and spread quickly over four acres toward dozens of homes in the Klahanie neighborhood near Sammamish. Eastside Deputy Fire Chief Michael Boyle told KIRO 7 it took 50 firefighters, eleven trucks, and 300 feet of fire hose to contain the flames, which spread in deep peat moss in a dry wooded area.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2015 9:21:33 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7

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