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A regional annual meeting was held at Yakima in March to prepare for fighting wildfires. [3] Summer fire rules went into effect on state-owned lands on April 15. [4] Four hundred firefighters from 36 fire districts and 18 agencies trained to fight forest fires in the Cascade Mountains above Yakima in May. [5]
Sleepy Hollow Fire (2015) in Monitor, close to where it was ignited, heading over the ridge and into the city of Wenatchee. These are incomplete lists of the major and minor wildfires in Washington state history, along with total costs of the fires for the years starting in 2002. Wildfires are infrequent on the western side of the Cascade Crest ...
The 2020 Washington wildfire season officially began in March 2020. The season was a part of the 2020 Western United States wildfires. By September, wildfires had burned over 713,000 acres, 181 homes had been lost, and one death occurred as a result. [2] [1] The 2020 fire season saw more individual fires than in any other recorded year. [1]
On June 3, he started fighting fires with DNR's Arcadia Engine 7405 near Spokane, in one of the most wildfire prone areas of Washington state. "He's hard working. He's motivated," said ...
The 2015 wildfire season was the largest in Washington state history, [5] with more than one million acres (400,000 ha; 1,600 sq mi) burning across the state from June to September. [1] As many as 3,000 firefighters including 800 Washington National Guard members were deployed to fight the fires.
The largest fire at the time was the Pioneer Fire in the Okanogan–Wenatchee National Forest near Lake Chelan, which had grown to more than 12,000 acres (4,900 ha). [2] On October 30, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources announced the end of the 2024 fire season. [3]
Fires included the Nakia Creek Fire in Southwest Washington and one on private timberland near Loch Katrine in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness 30 miles east of Seattle. [18] [19] Flames from the Loch Katrine fire could be seen from Seattle. [20] On October 18 and 19, due to wildfire smoke, Seattle had the worst air quality of any major city in the ...
Three days after the fires erupted Friday afternoon in Spokane County , mandatory evacuation orders remained in place for fire areas, including Medical Lake and a large zone east and southeast of ...