SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Multiple new wind-whipped wildfires are reported threatening several dozen homes in northeast Washington.
In Stevens County north of Spokane, the Slide Creek fire near Arden has burned across more than 200 acres of timber, brush and grass. Undersheriff Lavonne Webb says there are more than 20 homes in the affected area. She says one outbuilding has burned.
Another northeast Washington wildfire is burning at Fish Hatchery Road about four miles north of Republic in Ferry County. Washington Department of Natural Resources spokesman Albert Kassel says that fire has burned across more than 300 acres and threatens 50 homes.
In southeast Washington, Kassel says a fire east of Dayton has burned across about 300 acres of grassland.
