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• WSU police investigate third suspicious fire

  May 29, 2012 in City, Region Washington State University police are investigating the third suspicious fire to hit the Pullman campus in the past week. 3

• WSU president asks students, staff to be on the lookout

  May 28, 2012 in Region Washington State University president Elson Floyd called on students and staff to be on the lookout for anything unusual after a second apartment community center burned down early Saturday morning.

• Pullman fire called suspicious

  May 26, 2012 in City A community building at an apartment complex in Pullman was destroyed by fire early this morning, the second such fire in a week.

• Fire crews battle Sunday blaze for five hours

  May 20, 2012 in News, City The cause of an early morning fire appears suspicious and remains under investigation after the Spokane Fire Department responded to a fire in an unoccupied home on East Sprague.

• Normal fire season predicted for our area, but stay tuned

  May 17, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S5 For more than a decade, scientists and land managers have worked together to produce fire season forecasts for the Western United States. They take into account fuel conditions, like dry …

• Two people rescued in north Spokane apartment fire

  May 14, 2012 in City Firefighters and neighbors rescued two people from a second-floor apartment in north Spokane on Sunday afternoon after the building caught fire.

• After fire, Milk Bottle reopens with a few improvements

  May 11, 2012 in Business on Page A1 The Bottle is back in business. Damaged by a fire last fall, Mary Lou’s Milk Bottle in the Garland Business District celebrated its restoration Thursday with hamburgers and milkshakes for … 6

• North Spokane fire confined to second-floor bedroom

  May 3, 2012 in City The Red Cross is housing the four occupants of a North Spokane home damaged in a fire early this morning.

• Valley medical building bouncing back from blast

  April 28, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page V1 Seven months after a fire and explosion severely damaged portions of the Valley Mission Professional Building across from Valley Hospital, building owner Ron Ogle is still knee deep in an …

• Women found in fire were shot to death

  April 23, 2012 in Region SEATTLE — Two women whose bodies were found in a fire at a home in Washington state had been shot to death, the medical examiner’s office said today.

• 2-alarm fire burns Spokane County home

  April 19, 2012 in News, City A two-alarm fire is burning a home in northeast Spokane County. 1

• Fire damages vacant North Side home

  April 12, 2012 in News, City A small home in north Spokane was significantly damaged by fire Wednesday evening. Firefighters were called to 2717 N. Altamont St. about 7:20 p.m. and found a large plume of …

• 3 fires reported in Spokane area; 2 suspicious

  March 27, 2012 in News, City Fire crews were busy overnight with three blazes in the Spokane County area, including a suspicious house fire in West Central and a suspicious shed fire in Spokane Valley. 1

• Early morning fire destroys north Spokane home

  March 8, 2012 in City Spokane fire crews are investigating the cause of an early morning fire in northwest Spokane. 2

• Mansion fire’s cause a mystery

  February 28, 2012 in City on Page A5 A fire that gutted a Post Falls mansion two weeks ago has stymied investigators. “We’ve reached a dead end,” said Dan Ryan, a Kootenai County Fire Department division chief. 4

• Fire in Northeast Spokane ruled accidental

  February 26, 2012 in News, City A home in Northeast Spokane was heavily damaged early Sunday by a blaze that started when combustibles near a stove that was accidentally left on caught fire, the Spokane Fire …

• Foreclosure was expected today on fire-destroyed mansion

  February 17, 2012 in City on Page A1 Arson investigators are combing through the debris of a million-dollar riverfront estate that was engulfed by fire Thursday morning as lenders prepared to hold a foreclosure on the home. Flames … 23

• One dead in Mead mobile home fire

  February 2, 2012 in City One woman died in a mobile home fire early this morning in Mead.

• Coeur d’Alene business set on fire, burglarized

  January 30, 2012 in Idaho A Coeur d’Alene business was set on fire and burglarized sometime late Sunday or early Monday, a news release from the Coeur d’Alene Police Department said.

• Newman Lake home a total loss after fire

  January 24, 2012 in News, Region NEWMAN LAKE, Wash.- An overnight fire ripped through a Newman Lake home at 12611 N. East Newman Lake Drive Tuesday morning. There were no injuries.

• Woman, daughter may have died in N. Idaho fire

  January 18, 2012 in Idaho Two bodies found in a home near Blanchard, Idaho, following a fire early this morning are believed to be those of the homeowner’s wife and her daughter. 1

• Spokane Valley business fire ruled accidental

  January 10, 2012 in News Fire investigators say a fire that caused more than $150,000 damage to a Broadway Avenue industrial business Monday night was accidental.

• Young girl burned in Spokane house fire

  January 1, 2012 in News, City A 3-year-old girl was burned in a fire at her northeast Spokane home this morning. The girl is being treated for “extensive” second- and third-degree burns, according to the Spokane …

• Despite fire, Santé rolls on

  December 21, 2011 in Food on Page C1 The crew at Santé Restaurant and Charcuterie is still turning out a limited menu despite a small fire that damaged much of the kitchen equipment. General manager Kate Hansen said …

• Pokey the tortoise, nearly a century old, survives garage fire

  December 14, 2011 in Nation/World The fire in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Livermore destroyed the garage, collapsing its roof and reducing large garbage bins to plastic pancakes. Combing through the wreckage, firefighters … 1

• Industrial fire kept minor

  December 3, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page V2 Spokane Valley Fire Department crews responded to only a few minor fires in the two weeks ending Wednesday. Community members reported a couple of chimney fires, two car fires and …

• WSU student hospitalized after clothes catch fire

  November 2, 2011 in City, Idaho, Region A Washington State University student was being treated today at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after his clothes accidentally caught fire on Tuesday evening. 4

• Ferguson’s, The Milk Bottle see support pour in after fire

  October 27, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page S13 When Mary Lou’s Milk Bottle and Ferguson’s Cafe were hit by a three-alarm fire Sept. 25, people from all over Spokane responded with compassion to the news that the two …

• Efforts to ID bones from N. Idaho fire continue

  October 13, 2011 in Idaho Investigators have determined that human bones found in the rubble of a burned building in North Idaho last February belonged to someone between the ages of 18 and 22, but …

• Victim in car fire was Rathdrum man, 26

  October 11, 2011 in News, City A man killed in a car fire last week in Post Falls has been identified as Justin W. Gardner, 26, of Rathdrum.

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