yakima training center

A press release says currently, the Army is conducting cleanup efforts without public review or Ecology oversight.

They say the incident is NOT related to the shooting early Tuesday morning.

Field artillery live fire training is going on now at the Yakima Training Center.

Yakima Police Lt. Mike Pollard says they work closely with the Yakima Training Center bomb squad. "With larger cities they have the manpower to be able to do that"

The fire was first reported at 300 acres near the center of the training facility.

The fire was reported Thursday in the southeast area of the center and was last estimated at 8,000 acres.

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD (AP) — Officials at Joint Base Lewis-McChord want the public to know that the loud booms they'll hear this week is just practice. Starting Monday at 6:30 a.m., the First Battalion will conduct training with M777 155mm Howitzers at JBLM...

MOSES LAKE, Wash. (AP) — A fast-moving fire in central Washington that started Tuesday afternoon has been brought under control with some homes and outbuildings lost. The Grant County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday night the fire is still burning but not making a run as it did earlier in the day with high winds about seven miles north of Moses Lake...

State Routes 24 and 241 will remain closed until Monday morning as crews battle a fast-moving brush fire that started Saturday on the Yakima Training Center and spread overnight through the East Valley and into Benton County.

It’s going to be another booming weekend in the Yakima Valley, literally. That’s because the US Army will be busy at the Yakima Training Center. A news release from the center reads; Soldiers from the 5th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, 17th Fires Brigade will conduct live-fire training with the high-mobility artillery rocket system (HIMARS) from 10 a...