With more hot, dry weather expected this week, officials are bracing against a series of fast-moving wildfires that scorched more than 100,000 acres and destroyed as many as 75 homes and businesses over the weekend. Up to 160 homes remain threatened by the blazes, including as many as 100 by the Wolverine and Reach Complex fires and up to 60 by the First Creek fire, said Chris Schulte, manager of the team coordinating the firefighting.
- PUB DATE: 8/16/2015 1:39:22 PM - SOURCE: Seattle Times

Wooden pallets burned at the Port of Pasco sending plumes of smoke into the air Saturday afternoon. Pasco police said the fire was at Columbia Pallet on Ainsworth Avenue near Southeast Road 33. No injuries have been reported in the fire, which was reported at 2:15 p.m. But Pasco Fire Battalion Chief Dave Hare said one firefighter complained of heat exhaustion and was treated on the scene.
- PUB DATE: 8/15/2015 3:44:14 PM - SOURCE: Mid-Columbia Tri-City Herald

Wooden pallets burned at the Port of Pasco sending plumes of smoke into the air Saturday afternoon. Pasco police said the fire was at Columbia Pallet on Ainsworth Avenue near Southeast Road 33. No injuries have been reported in the fire, which was reported at 2:15 p.m. But Pasco Fire Battalion Chief Dave Hare said one firefighter complained of heat exhaustion and was treated on the scene.
- PUB DATE: 8/15/2015 3:44:14 PM - SOURCE: Mid-Columbia Tri-City Herald

Fire crews say the Stickpin Fire significantly grew overnight and has now burned approximately 12,500 acres. The Ferry County Sheriff's Office has issued Level 1 voluntary evacuations from Deer Boulder Creek Road south to the North Saint Peters Creek, Upper Long Alex Creek and Lambert Creek drainages.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2015 9:41:14 AM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6

Lightning-sparked fires are forcing some evacuations in Chelan County. Chelan County Emergency Management posted on Facebook that there are mandatory Level 3 evacuations on Little Butte Road. Level 2 evacuations, in which residents are prompted to be ready to leave at a moment’s notice, are being issued for all the canyons off Chelan Butte road.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: king5