fires

Warm weather paired with cold fronts are expected to glide by, creating winds and high fire danger.

21-year-old woman and her accomplice were arrested for setting multiple fires.

Firefighters Are Teaching Family Fire Safety at Fair

This should help!

According to Oregon state parks:
Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD) is prohibiting all campfires and open flames in all state park properties effective 10 a.m. today. (July 19th,2018) The ban is in response to Gov. Brown’s declaration of a fire emergency...

Now that temps are dropping, and more heat is needed in homes, a variety of experts and fire safety officials are saying don't plug space heaters or others into power strips. Otherwise, they will look like this picture, courtesy of the Umatilla County Fire District 1.

It might cooling down in the next few weeks, but looks like warnings are still in effect for campfires and off-roading especially in the Blue Mountains this weekend.

According to various sources, the air quality in Eastern Washington, North Idaho and Northeast Oregon is among the worst in the entire U.S., due to smoke from those British Columbia fires and others. On the map, yellow is moderate, orange not very good, and red is 'put on a mask and stay indoor…

By way of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the website Washington Smoke Information, here's what it looked like from above when all that smoke from Canada and other Northwest fires rolled in. These photos are time lapse from Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday morning.

Look out any window in TC right now and you'll see a smokey haze. It seems that the fire might be close but in reality it's a bit further away then you'd think...

It happens when you are trying to do the right thing and it literally backfires on you, a man in Kennewick started a grass fire while trying to prevent a fire.
Kennewick Fire Department responded to a fire burning near Edison Street Monday afternoon.

An early morning fire displaced several Kennewick residents this morning at the Tanglewood Apartments. Kennewick Fire Department arrived on scene to several apartment units on fire but quickly got the fire under control.