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Spokane Valley Fire Department Capt. Duane Hughes was protecting homes from the raging Gray fire. At the same time, his Silver Lake home went up in flames. After about six hours of saving homes and seeing others burn, Hughes drove up to his destroyed house on Aug. 18. “As we were driving to it, I […]

More than $700,000 has been raised in less than a week since the Innovia Foundation launched the Eastern Washington Wildfire Emergency Response Fund to help victims of area fires that broke out Aug. 18. The fund started Monday with $200,000 seeded: $50,000 each from the Washington Trust Bank, Spokane Teachers Credit Union, Premera Blue Cross

From staff reports Thousands of people fled the Medical Lake area as a wildfire burned thousands of acres, dozens of homes and left one person dead following days of 100-degree temperatures and critical winds that erupted Friday into one of the Spokane region’s worst natural disasters. Firefighters could not stop the flames blowing into the

From staff reports Two wildfires that ravaged different parts of Spokane County on Friday afternoon destroyed 300 structures, including homes and outbuildings, and torched 18,000 acres of homes, scrublands, farm fields and forests. At least one person is dead. The fire that burned through Medical Lake razed at least 185 structures and blackened more than

The Oregon Road fire has reached 8,282 acres with 0% containment. The fire is burning uphill towards structures near Spring Valley Road and East Jefferson Road at the Spokane/Pend Oreille County border. Updated on August 19 at 12:49 p.m. A fire on near Elk which began Friday afternoon has reached 3,000 acres and destroyed at least 30