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A fire was started Monday morning in a Vancouver, Washington ballot dropbox much like this one pictured in Bellingham. (Robert Mittendorf/The Bellingham Herald)
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 fire suppression system prevented major damage, although three ballots were affected. [40] Security was subsequently increased around ballot boxes in Multnomah County. [41] On the same day, a fire broke out inside a ballot drop box at Fisher's Landing Transit Center in Vancouver, Washington, damaging hundreds of ballots.
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).
The Vancouver Fire Department (VFD) provides fire protection and emergency medical services to the city of Vancouver and, by contract to Clark County Fire District 5, in Washington, United States. The VFD's response area is 89.2 square miles (231 km 2 ) with a population of over 297,400. [ 5 ]
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 ...
By Wednesday morning, about 100,000 customers, mostly on Vancouver Island, remained without power. An NBC affiliate in Seattle broadcast images of cars smashed by fallen trees and damaged homes.