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The highway was closed again due to the fire's growth as well as the formation of the Blue Lake Fire. [19] Smoke from this fire and other fires in inland Washington and British Columbia was pushed towards Western Washington and rapid convective mixing caused unhealthy air quality in Seattle on August 20–21. [20] [21]
An 11-year-old girl escaped from the fire with minor injuries and was treated by emergency personnel. Detectives in Seattle were investigating the deaths of two adults and two children whose ...
A fire broke out early Wednesday morning at a vacant building in Rainier Beach, marking the latest in a series of blazes involving vacant properties in Seattle.
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 ]
A truck carrying liquid oxygen tanks caught fire and exploded multiple times on an interstate running through Seattle on Thursday. Miraculously, no one was even injured in the blaze.
The fire caused the closure of the North Cascades Highway (State Route 20) and evacuations of recreational facilities and three Seattle City Light hydroelectric dams in the area. As of September 15, 2023, the Sourdough Fire had been estimated to have burned 6,369 acres (2,577 ha) and was 25 percent contained. [1]
Reports of a natural gas leak on 8th avenue prompted a hazmat response from Seattle Fire on Saturday morning.
The Great Seattle Fire was a fire that destroyed the entire central business district of Seattle, Washington, on June 6, 1889. The conflagration lasted for less than a day, burning through the afternoon and into the night, during the same summer as the Great Spokane Fire and the Great Ellensburg Fire .