Eastern Washington Wildfires

Wildfire smoke turns air hazardous

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Live air quality map: Where Washington wildfires are causing smoky conditions

Parts of eastern Washington are experiencing unhealthy or hazardous air quality on Friday due to wildfire smoke.

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Why wildfire smoke is making air quality so bad across the US

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Wildfire smoke is driving terrible air quality in major cities as new plumes arrive from Canada

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‘Brutal’: Ontario outdoor workers stay home, others mask up amid wildfire smoke

Outdoor workers are donning masks, taking breaks or staying home altogether as wildfire smoke wafts across southern Ontario and health officials raise concerns.

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Ontario could get a brief respite from wildfire smoke before poor air quality returns

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Toronto’s high-risk air quality lingers Friday ahead of weekend rain

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Canadian wildfire smoke turns air hazardous in the U.S. Midwest

Detroit’s air quality was among the worst in the world for major cities, as a lingering high pressure system trapped smoke from dozens of fires in Canada and northern Minnesota, said Steven Freitag, a...

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Canadian wildfire smoke brings dangerous air quality to more than 100 million people in the Midwest and Northeast

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Ontario asks Ottawa for potential help evacuating communities affected by wildfires

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A Washington wildfire shut all of Interstate 90 and forced a whole town to flee

A fast-moving wildfire near the small Columbia River town of Vantage forced residents to evacuate and shut down every lane of Interstate 90, severing the main east-west highway across Washington State.

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Eastern Washington wildfire forces evacuations and destroys homes

High winds drove a wildfire into an eastern Washington neighborhood, forcing the evacuation of about 1,500 people and destroying at least 15 homes, officials said Wednesday. The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office announced Wednesday that its forensic unit found what appeared to be human remains inside a home destroyed in the fire.

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Eastern Washington firefighters train for increasingly extreme wildfire behavior

Firefighters across Eastern Washington are confronting a new reality: wildfires that move faster, burn hotter and behave in ways that defy traditional firefighting tactics.

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Multiple wildfires burning hundreds of acres across eastern Washington and North Idaho

This week has brought warm weather and severe winds across the Inland Northwest, from central Washington all the way into North Idaho. With the hot and windy conditions have come several wildfires

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Wildfire in eastern Washington prompts evacuations and destroys homes

The Upriver Fire was burning about a mile east of Spokane and had burned 222 acres by late Wednesday, according to the U.S. Forest Service.

Air quality alert active for Eastern Washington Saturday

An air quality alert was reported by the NWS Spokane WA on Friday at 10:13 a.m. in effect until Saturday at 2 p.m. The alert is for Adams, Lincoln, Spokane and Whitman counties.

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Upcoming thunderstorms raise wildfire danger across Washington

The weather this weekend could be a recipe for rapid wildfire spread in Eastern Washington, according to state officials. With a potential for record-high temperatures across the state Sunday, a warm and dry trend in Eastern Washington and projected winds,

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Washington DNR enacts eastern Washington burn ban beginning Friday, July 17

DNR said pressurized liquid gas and propane stoves can be used, provided they have a shut-off valve that works.