{"id":842,"date":"2010-07-19T12:11:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T19:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=842"},"modified":"2010-07-19T14:11:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T21:11:41","slug":"news-brief-napavine-firefighters-join-others-at-yakima-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Napavine firefighters join others at Yakima wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn  L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two volunteer firefighters from the Napavine-area fire district responded to an overnight call for more help at a Yakima area wildfire that has grown to an estimated 10,000 acres.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters Kevin VanEgdom and Raymond Smerek were taking a Lewis County Fire District 5 tender that holds 3,000 gallons of water, District 5 Firefighter Brad Bozarth said this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The grass and sage fire three miles west of Yakima which began yesterday is threatening 150 structures, according to an update just before 10 o&#8217;clock this morning from the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center. The Cowiche Mill fire is about 15 percent contained, according to the center.<\/p>\n<p>The NWCC serves as the northwest area geographic focal point to provide support and information related to ongoing and anticipated wildfire activity.<\/p>\n<p>Bozarth said the two men don&#8217;t know for sure how long they&#8217;ll be over there helping with the fire.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"&quot;Cowiche fire 15 percent contained; size now at 10,000 acres\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yakima-herald.com\/stories\/2010\/07\/19\/cowiche-fire-15-percent-contained-size-now-at-10-000-acres\" target=\"_blank\">Yakima Herald-Republic<\/a> reported this morning the huge brush fire has destroyed one home, and heavily damaged another as well as some barns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter Two volunteer firefighters from the Napavine-area fire district responded to an overnight call for more help at a Yakima area wildfire that has grown to an estimated 10,000 acres. Firefighters Kevin VanEgdom and Raymond Smerek were taking a Lewis County Fire District 5 tender that holds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}