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The Cold Springs Fire started July 12, 2008, eleven miles north of Trout Lake in Washington. It was contained and put out in August 2008. The fire was started by lightning on July 12 and spread rapidly through heavy dead timber, eventually burning a total of 7,993 acres before full containment was reached on August 1. Of the area burned, 4,723 acres were in the Gifford Pinchot National Fores
The Whitney Fire near Davenport was 100,000 acres (40,000 ha) large by September 9, when it was 5% contained. [10] Pearl Hill Fire was 223,730 acres and over 90% contained by September 22; together Pearl Hill and Cold Springs Fires burned over 410,000 acres (170,000 ha). [8] [11] Smaller fires in occurred in more populated areas of Western ...
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 ...
Petrie said that so far no one has drowned because rescue crews can’t get the boat out, but the May 14 incident came very close, and it is likely just a matter of time.
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Among the active fires was the 24,000-acre (9,700 ha) Taylor Pond Fire near Yakima. [18] By August 20, the Palmer Fire near Oroville – which started August 18 – had reached 13,000 acres (5,300 ha) and forced evacuation of up to 85 homes. [19] [20] The largest of the fires in the Olympics reached 2.4 acres (0.97 ha) by August 20. [21]
The fireboat Salish Star pours water on a 68-foot fishing boat ablaze in Squalicum Harbor about 1:45 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in Bellingham, Wash. (Bellingham Fire Department/Courtesy to The ...
2023 – Port Newark disaster, cargo ship catches fire in Newark, New Jersey — 2 firefighters killed. 2023 – MV Fremantle Highway caught fire off the coast of the Dutch island of Ameland around 11.45 pm on 25 July 2023 while en route from Bremerhaven, Germany, due to arrive in Egypt's Port Said on 2 August 2023.