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An “incendiary device” was placed in an election dropbox before 4:30 a.m. Monday in Vancouver, Washington, destroying and damaging hundreds of ballots.
About a half hour later, around 4 a.m. local time, officers in Vancouver, Washington, responded to a report of a ballot box that was smoking and on fire, police said.
The ban was issued in response to several large, human-caused wildfires amid the statewide drought emergency and drier-than-normal weather across Washington. 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).
7-24-24 map of fire perimeter: Retreat Fire [9] [10] Yakima July 23, cause unknown 44,588 acres (18,044 ha) 5 0 0 Also called the Rimrock Retreat Fire, Closed US-12, caused evacuations and county-wide declaration of emergency 7-27-24 map of fire perimeter: Swawilla Fire [11] [12] Ferry & Okanogan July 17, Lightning 53,462 acres (21,635 ha) 2 ...
The 2023 Washington wildfire season officially began in March 2023 in the US state of Washington. Conditions going into the season were low-risk for fire, with higher than average precipitation over the prior winter and spring. [1] Some experts anticipated a later peak, possibly into November, for the Pacific Northwest due to El Niño effects. [2]
A grandmother of seven has died in a Washington state house fire the week before the holidays. Firefighters responded to the fatal blaze in Lynnwood just after noon on Sunday, Dec. 16, according ...
The fire department notified Olympic Pipeline of the leak and evacuated the area around the creek. [2] The gasoline exploded at 5:02 PM. [5] [6] The black smoke plume extended to an altitude of 30,000 feet (9,100 m) and the smoke from the explosion was visible from Vancouver to Anacortes. The fire exceeded 2,000 °F (1,090 °C).
A shooting at a mall in Vancouver, Washington Thursday evening left one person dead and two others injured. The Vancouver Police Department said that it received a report of a shooting in the ...