PASCO — A fire that raced through a barn near Pasco killed four Arabian horses, along with the supplies needed to continue caring for the 20 remaining horses on the breeding farm.
“To a horse man, this is the worst thing that could happen — losing animals to a fire,” said Ted Wenham, a Pasco chiropractor who runs the farm with his girlfriend, Jana Peterson.
The fire broke out last Sunday at the Columbia Stallion Station. The cause of the fire was not immediately determined, but Wenham told the Tri-City Herald newspaper that it may have been an electrical problem in a pumphouse.
“Someone brought me four tons of hay already and there’s another four tons ready when I need it,” Wenham said Friday.
Ephrata: 3 arrests in fatal shooting
The Grant County sheriff’s office says three men have been arrested in the shooting death of 17-year-old Carlos Leyva near Mattawa.
Undersheriff John Turley told The Wenatchee World newspaper that 41-year-old Martin Ochoa Ramos was arrested Thursday in Sunnyside on a warrant alleging first-degree murder. He said Mattawa police on Wednesday arrested 20-year-old Luis A. Mejia Nunez and a 15-year-old boy for investigation of first-degree murder, second-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder.
The sheriff’s office says Leyva was walking with two others on March 7 when a car drove by and shots were fired, killing Leyva and wounding a companion.
Morton: 1 dead, 1 hurt in plane crash
A single-engine plane carrying two people has crashed near a house close to Morton, southwest of Mount Rainier.
Lewis County sheriff’s deputies say the Cirrus SR22 clipped several trees before crashing into the driveway of a house along State Highway 508 west of Morton on Friday evening.
A man was reported dead at the scene. A seriously injured woman was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
B.C.: Snowmobiler killed in avalanche
Rescue crews ended their search Saturday in British Columbia’s mountainous backcountry after accounting for everyone in an area where an avalanche hit, killing one snowmobiler.
The slide struck around 3:30 p.m. Friday while snowmobilers were riding on Eagle Pass Mountain near Revelstoke, B.C. Police said a 30-year-old man from Calgary died in the slide.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Dan Moskaluk said Saturday morning that there were two groups of people at the base of the mountain at the time who may have been caught in the slide, but by midday, rescue crews had determined everyone was safe.
— Herald news services
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