The fire season is underway in Washington State as the hot temperatures begin to arrive in the Yakima Valley and the threat of fire increases at the end of the month and into next month.
Janet Pierce says state officials were predicting a hot, dry and busy fire season -- one for which they had prepared by stationing resources in areas like Yakima to make sure they could respond in a timely manner and gain control.
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...