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An apartment fire in the 600 block of 4th Street NE at the Columbia Square Apartments lasted over an hour and a half Thursday night. Wenatchee Valley Fire Chief Brian Brett says crews responded at approximately 6 p.m. and found a deck on fire on the second floor of the three-story apartment complex...

Residential campfires are now banned in unincorporated Chelan County. With unseasonably hot and windy conditions this weekend, the Chelan County fire marshal is banning all residential campfires in the county's unincorporated areas. The ban does not include propane-fueled campfire units, nor does it apply to commercially made barbecues and camp stoves...

An apartment complex fire in Ellensburg Sunday night displaces 18 people. The Ellensburg Daily Record reports the blaze tore through the Brookside Manor apartment complex in Ellensburg around 8:07 p.m. The inferno destroyed six apartment units while 13 suffered smoke damage...

A motorhome was destroyed by fire in Soap Lake early Friday morning. Officials with Grant County Fire District No. 7 say crews were dispatched at around 5:45 a.m. to the 100 block of Fern Street where they arrived to find the motorhome fully involved...

A homeless encampent fire spread into a small brush fire in Wenatchee Friday afternoon. Chief Brian Brett says it happened at approximately 1:20 p.m. in the area of 5th and Pierre. Crews extinguished the blaze within a half an hour...

A vehicle fire occured this afternoon in south Wenatchee. Wenatchee Fire Chief Brian Brett says the blaze occured in the 100 block of Chapman Road in south Wenatchee at approximately 2:15 p.m. Brett says fire crews responded to reports of thick smoke and found someone burned debris in the back of a pickup truck...

The Washington State Fire Marshals Office is urging parents to especially keep these two things away from those young ones!

The man accused of starting a fire under the Apple Capital Loop Trail is in custody. Wenatchee Police Department detectives questioned and detained 51-year-old Timothy Whitney Wednesday. Police say Whitney confessed to starting the fire to keep warm near the mouth of the pipe...

Chief Brett highlights labor-intensive firefighting process using Class A wildland foam after initial water dousing, investigation underway for cause.

An Okanogan County man is in jail after police say they connected him to a fire that damaged seven delivery trucks at a UPS facility in Omak last weekend. The Omak Police Department says 22-year-old Isaac Sayler sparked the fire in the early morning hours of Saturday, Jan...