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Wildfire season has not been kind to Southeastern Washington and Northern Idaho this summer. Naturally-caused wildfires are still burning through the two bordering states, but human-caused fires pose a greater threat to Pullman and surrounding towns.  The number one goal for practicing fire safety is to prevent any fire that can be prevented, said Tony...

The fire that would eventually destroy two College Hill homes Sunday afternoon was caused by a marijuana joint, according to the Pullman Fire Department.

The fire that would eventually destroy two College Hill homes Sunday afternoon was caused by a marijuana cigarette, according to the Pullman Fire Department.

PULLMAN — Josh Lee can see his desk and pencil case from outside his bedroom window, but he will never be able to recover his belongings after a human-caused fire

The WSU School of the Environment announced the release of a new course for the fall 2021 semester called SOE 492: wildland fire ecology and management. Mark Swanson, associate professor in WSU’s School of the Environment, will teach the course. He said his graduate student, Timothy Fitzgibbons, and undergraduate teaching assistant Trenton Baribault, will assist him. The course will be shaped around the hybrid learning method, with lectures composed in person and on Zoom. In October, students...

No one was injured after a small one-person aircraft crashed around 6:35 p.m. today in a farmer’s field near NW Terre View Drive and NW Marshland Street.   A middle-aged man was piloting the aircraft, said Ryan Scharnhorst, assistant fire chief and operation officer for the Pullman Fire Department. The man was evaluated on the scene by first responders, which included one fire engine, an ambulance and two law enforcement officers.  The aircraft was upside down when first responders arrived...