RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — A wildfire that burned 1,300 acres of sagebrush on the Hanford nuclear reservation was apparently started by electrical sparks.
A spokesman for firefighters, Jeff Dennison, says it was apparently started Wednesday by an arc from a power line that runs between the 300 area and the 400 area on the reservation.
Firefighters worked until 2 a.m. Thursday to put out the fire. Some remained all night watching for hot spots.
The fire burned near a closed research reactor, the Fast Flux Test Facility, but no radiation was involved.
There were no injuries or structures lost.
