Reporting from Pateros, Wash. — The call came at 3:30 a.m., a reverse 911 warning that jolted Jeff Nanamkin and Kari Barker awake. Flames from the network of fires plaguing eastern Washington ...

The Carlton Complex fire will probably go down as the biggest conflagration in Washington state history, torching about 240,000 acres and counting. Pateros, one of Washington’s littlest towns ...

The fire is just kind of picking up and blowing ... At least 95 houses were destroyed in and around Pateros, Washington, a small community of 650 people and 279 homes. Authorities had ordered ...

A small north-central Washington town and a nearby ... He said the fire had jumped U.S. Highway 97 between Brewster and Pateros and was burning along the Columbia. Sections of several highways ...

The fire near Pateros charred more than 168,000 acres ... Jay Inslee said about 50 fires were burning in Washington, which has been wracked by hot, dry weather, gusting winds and lightning.

(AP) - A wildfire across the Columbia River from Pateros in central Washington has grown to about 8,500 acres - more than 13 square miles - and is threatening five homes. Deputy State Fire Marshal ...

PATEROS, Wash -- The flames died nearly five years ago but the scars from biggest wildfire in Washington state history are still there -- on the land and the people who survived the Carlton ...

A large, wind-whipped wildfire in rural north-central Washington forced the evacuation of Pateros residents late Thursday night. 30 homes and trailers in Pateros were destroyed, according to ...

“Our team is working hard alongside residents who lost their homes in Pateros, [Washington State], USA,” reported ... what has been dubbed the Carlton Complex — the worst fire in Washington State’s ...

PATEROS, Wash. — A fire racing through rural north-central Washington destroyed about 100 homes, leaving behind smoldering rubble, solitary brick chimneys and burned-out automobiles as it ...

The town of Pateros, Washington, sits at the confluence of the Methow and Columbia rivers in a landscape that has been dramatically shaped by ice and water over the past 20,000 years, including a ...

He said the county is getting offers of support from outside areas, “but what we really need is a break in the weather to get this fire to stop or slow down.” In Pateros this morning ...