A federal analysis of a May 2013 fire at the Southwest Inn that killed four Houston firefighters is in "alignment" with earlier local and state reports that cited communication failures and tactics used at the scene of the blaze, Houston Fire Department officials said Monday. The recently released report, from the CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, is intended "to educate not just the Houston Fire Department, but the entire American fire service," HFD officials said in a statement.
- PUB DATE: 7/21/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: houston chronicle

Prosecutors say an apartment fire was a crime of domestic violence that could have killed many people. Thirty-three-year-old Ricardo Rodriguez is accused of setting fire to a South Park apartment complex with his ex-girlfriend inside on Saturday morning. According to charging documents, Rodriguez had a smirk on his face when he dropped a match onto pools of gasoline outside his ex-girlfriend’s apartment.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2015 7:46:19 PM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7

An estimated 40-acre blaze has put Neah Bay on the list of communities in the state with a neighboring wildfire this drought season. The fire has burned slash and 1-year-old trees along 200 Line Road southeast of Neah Bay, state Department of Natural Resources officials said Monday. The fire is on Makah reservation land about a mile from the nearest neighborhood, and though it is active, it is not expected to spread, officials said.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2015 7:38:30 PM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News