EAST WENATCHEE — Firefighters working through the night stopped a wildfire that came within 50 yards of 911 radio towers on Badger Mountain near East Wenatchee.
The assistant fire chief for Douglas County Fire District 2, Doug Miller, says about 45 firefighters at the scene today should be able to finish containing the 1,300-acre fire.
It broke out about 5 p.m. Tuesday, reportedly from a downed power line, and spread rapidly in grass and scattered timber about six miles northeast of East Wenatchee.
Douglas County commissioners declared a state of emergency because of the threat to the radio towers that provide communications for police and fire dispatchers.
Miller says three ranch homes were threatened, and firefighters burned out grass around one to save it from the wildfire.
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