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So far, Washington's fire season is shaping up exactly as expected. The entire state and Oregon has above-normal fire risk.
The Burdoin fire, which started on Friday, July 18, on the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge, has damaged or ...
Jim Walsh, a state lawmaker from Aberdeen and chair of the Washington State Republican Party, filed Initiative to the ...
Someone swiped a fire engine from an emergency scene and crashed it into more than a dozen parked vehicles, then ditched it ...
The dispute over the State, Private and Tribal Forestry funding could leave the Washington Natural Resources Department ...
If state funding for forest health and wildfire prevention isn’t ramped back up in the next legislative session, it could ...
The Hope Fire, a wildfire about 5 miles southwest of Northpoint, Washington, has grown to 6,365 acres and is still 0% contained. The same Level 3 evacuations are still in effect and the public is ...
The wildfire burning along Highway 14 in the Columbia River Gorge is the state’s largest fire, covering 11,248 acres as of ...
A wildfire burning near Bingen along the Columbia River has surpassed 11,000 acres, though some progress has been made on the ...
Several evacuations have been lowered, including the town of Lyle, which is down to Level 2, allowing people to return home.
Hot and dry conditions are adding challenges to firefighters who also are battling four other large areas in Washington.
The Ohio Department of Commerce Division of State Fire Marshal hosted Washington, D.C., Fire Chief John A. Donnelly Sr. on ...