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• 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

• 17th Avenue home badly damaged in fire

  April 2, 2012 in City on Page A6 A South Hill residence was significantly damaged by fire Sunday morning. Occupants of the home at 3111 E. 17th Ave. reported the fire at about 10:30 a.m. and evacuated before …

• 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

• NW Today: Home burns in northeast Spokane

  March 22, 2012 in Region The Red Cross was assisting residents of a home at 1602 E. Mallon Ave., which was damaged by a fire Wednesday night.

• 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 …

• Frigid air brings home fire risks

  December 8, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page S6 With dipping temperatures come heating season, and with that comes residential fire season. According to the United States Fire Administration, cooking is the leading cause of winter residential building fires, …

• Neighbors rescue fire victims

  November 21, 2011 in City on Page A1 Jeff Bickell won’t soon forget Sunday morning. That’s when he ran down his North Side street to see his neighbor leaning out of a second-story window, gasping for air, her … 4

• Officials identify two killed in mobile home fire

  November 18, 2011 in News Fire officials today identified the two people who died in an early morning fire on Wednesday. Ralph Skjothaug, 72, and Sharon Fischer, 70, died in the 4:44 a.m. fire at … 1

• Two people die when home burns

  November 17, 2011 in City on Page A5 A man and woman of retirement age died early Wednesday when a fire ripped through a new manufactured home the two had occupied since last summer. The fire occurred in …

• ’91 firestorm seared into area’s memory

  October 16, 2011 in City on Page B1 Twenty years ago today, wind-whipped wildfires took off and began to ravage several Eastern Washington counties. It would take several days and multiple agencies to get nearly 100 fires contained. 10

• Juvenile detained for overnight arsons

  October 5, 2011 in News A juvenile faces arson and theft charges for allegedly setting fires in Spokane Valley and stealing a bicycle. 5

• Kootenai County lifts burn ban

  October 4, 2011 in News Kootenai County fire chiefs lifted summer’s burn ban today.

• Hangman Valley fire spares dozen homes

  September 11, 2011 in City on Page B1 Crews from multiple agencies battled a brush fire that threatened several homes near the Hangman Valley Golf Course on Saturday afternoon. Twelve houses were threatened by the blaze, which officials … 1

• Wildfires destroy 1,000 homes across parched Texas

  September 6, 2011 in Nation/World More than 1,000 homes have burned in at least 57 wildfires across rain-starved Texas, most of them in one devastating blaze close to Austin that’s still raging out of control, … 3

• Another fire, more need

  August 25, 2011 in City on Page A1 At least 90 people have been burned out of their homes and apartments this month in what’s become a bad August for residential fires in Spokane. Residents of a three-story … 2

• Police: Boys playing with matches started Kellogg fire

  August 19, 2011 in Idaho Two young boys started a 17-acre fire in Kellogg this week, officials announced today.

• Crews slow Silver Peak fire near gondola and homes

  August 18, 2011 in City, Idaho on Page A5 A fire that burned 20 to 25 acres south of Kellogg on Wednesday is suspicious in origin. The fire, reported about 2 p.m. just south of town, burned south toward …

• 30-acre fire burning in south Spokane County

  August 17, 2011 in News Multiple agencies are responding to a 30-acre fire near Long Road in south Spokane County at the Whitman County line. 3

• Blaze destroys 23 apartments

  August 11, 2011 in City on Page A1 Quinton Baker was asleep in his bottom-floor apartment early Wednesday when he heard pounding. It was his upstairs neighbor, frantically trying to alert him to a blaze that was threatening … 6

• 23 apartments burn in 3-alarm N. Spokane fire

  August 10, 2011 in City A three-alarm fire in North Spokane destroyed 23 units in an apartment building. Twenty-two units were occupied, and all residents escaped unharmed, fire officials said. 27

• Woman, dogs killed in house fire

  July 16, 2011 in City on Page B1 A woman and her dogs died in a fire that ripped through her northeast Spokane home Friday. Inez L. Williams, 67, was described by friends and family as an animal …

• Woman’s body found in fire-damaged home

  July 15, 2011 in City A woman and her dogs died in a fire that ripped through her northeast Spokane home Friday. Inez L. Williams, 67, was described by friends and family as an animal … 2

• Coeur d’Alene officer saves family from fire

  July 8, 2011 in News A Coeur d’Alene police officer saved a family of four from a structure fire early this morning. 3

• Blaze strikes ROTC building

  June 19, 2011 in City, Idaho on Page B3 MOSCOW, Idaho – A fire damaged the Navy ROTC building at the University of Idaho in Moscow. Moscow Fire Chief Ed Button said no one was injured in the Saturday …

• St. Maries homicide victim ID’d as suspect’s uncle

  May 18, 2011 in Idaho A St. Maries man found dead at his home early Tuesday has been identified as Robert Dean Marek, 43. 1

• Valley firefighters fight two structure fires

  May 12, 2011 in News A Pop Tart that caught fire in a toaster caused extensive damage to a Spokane Valley home today. 1

• Melting wax creates sticky situation; fire displaces two

  April 1, 2011 in News A Spokane woman was melting wax to make candles when the wax caught on fire and spread to her kitchen cabinets and throughout her kitchen.

• Spokane Valley fire displaces seven people

  March 1, 2011 in News Spokane Valley firefighters responded to a blaze this morning that started in an apartment complex and displaced seven tenants.

• Fire crews rescue woman from burning apartment

  February 18, 2011 Kootenai County firefighters evacuated several people from there homes after a fire broke out tonight in a Post Falls apartment complex.

• Disabled man uses Facebook to summon help during fire

    January 20, 2011 in City on Page A1 Smoke from a flaming toaster filled his living room quickly, but Robert “Bob” Chambers couldn’t call for help. Muscular dystrophy limits his movement, and the 51-year-old Spokane man’s phone was … 3

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