lightening

Last night, Central Washington residents up and down the Yakima Valley were treated to a spectacular thunder and lightning show courtesy of Mother Nature.

This fire season has turned out be intense and unusual. More than 56,000 acres are burning throughout the state. Firefighters and neighbors KIMA Action News talked to said they've never seen a fire season like this. More than three-thousand lightning strikes sparked four complex fires across the middle of the state...

Despite the cold and wet start to summer, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is warning that hot, dry weather and the threat of thunderstorms have brought on Washington’s fire season. In 2011, 90 percent of fires were human-caused...