•Forty mile an hour winds pushed North Central Washington’s huge twin wildfires beyond some of their boundaries on Thursday, and put residents in the Wenatchee Valley and Blewett Pass on high alert.
•Chelan County Coroner Wayne Harris is responsible for determining the cause and relative time of any unexplained death in his jurisdiction. He says today in Travis Decker’s case, that may prove impossible.
•Creighton Hilstad, the owner of the Wenatchee Avenue boutique store Henry Harrow & Co. lost 10 acres of his property to the Lower Sugarloaf fire on Sunday night. He’s one of dozens of landowners who’ve found themselves in the path of the 34,000-acre fire.