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Firefighters Are Teaching Family Fire Safety at Fair

This should help!

We're not the only ones experiencing brush and wildfires, the Spokane area has seen hundreds of evacuations due to tinder dry conditions and fires as well. These pictures are of one of a number of various sized fires near my sister's home in Spokane Valley...

The threat is real.

Fire Crews from Tri-Cities and surrounding areas are leaving today, Dec. 8, to fight the wild fires in California. Multiple fires have already caused thousands to evacuate their homes.On Friday morning, seven fires were burning in Southern California...

Now that temps are dropping, and more heat is needed in homes, a variety of experts and fire safety officials are saying don't plug space heaters or others into power strips. Otherwise, they will look like this picture, courtesy of the Umatilla County Fire District 1.

This wind is not helping... From the KRPR Action News Facebook page: "BREAKING: A couple homes evacuated off of Dallas Road because of a quickly moving fire in unincorporated Benton County. We have a reporter on the scene. Fire fighters say winds are pushing flames away from homes...

In case you haven't been online or watched the news or breathed the air in the Tri-Cities as of late, you may not know that several wild fires are making life more difficult in the Pacific Northwest. Not only are our beautiful forests on fire and the air quality is terrible, but traffic is being affected as well...

Especially for those who have sensitive lungs, or respiratory issues, checking, cleaning or replacing your vehicle's filters might not be a bad idea.