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Office manager Sherri Owens restocks Bethel Community Church’s refrigerator with water bottles. “We have a really good church family that’s willing to step up and help,” she said.

Agencies, churches, volunteers ready to help fire evacuees

Office manager Sherri Owens restocks Bethel Community Church’s refrigerator with water bottles. “We have a really good church family that’s willing to step up and help,” she said.

September 6, 2017, 8:12pm Clark County News Free

With a change in the winds, Wednesday was a calmer day for emergency evacuation sites in Washougal. But the people manning these sites are on standby in case wildfire conditions worsen. Read story

Suspect in assault case appears in court

September 6, 2017, 7:57pm Clark County News

A 19-year-old man who allegedly followed a woman as she walked home from work and assaulted her in an alley made a first appearance Wednesday in Clark County Superior Court. Read story

Liz Gebhard of Portland, left, walks with her horse, Leo, as Joee Andersen, cq, walks with her horse, Noah, left, as well as miniature horses Tashi, green halter, and Namaste, of Windy Ridge Farm after the horses were evacuated from Skamania County to the Clark County Fairgrounds on Wednesday morning, Sept. 6, 2017. Leo, Noah, Tashi and Namaste were four of 22 horses displaced from the farm.

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Liz Gebhard of Portland, left, walks with her horse, Leo, as Joee Andersen, cq, walks with her horse, Noah, left, as well as miniature horses Tashi, green halter, and Namaste, of Windy Ridge Farm after the horses were evacuated from Skamania County to the Clark County Fairgrounds on Wednesday morning, Sept. 6, 2017. Leo, Noah, Tashi and Namaste were four of 22 horses displaced from the farm.

September 6, 2017, 5:45pm Clark County Life Free

Kody Bishoprick first heard the news when the phone rang at 5 a.m. Tuesday. The Eagle Creek Fire had jumped the Columbia River and was within miles of Windy Ridge Farm, where he works as a ranch foreman helping care for 22 horses near the border with Skamania County. Read story

Newly sharpened pencils await students in Washougal at the district’s new K-8 campus.

Washougal teachers vote down contract

Newly sharpened pencils await students in Washougal at the district’s new K-8 campus.

September 6, 2017, 1:31pm Clark County News

Washougal teachers will return to their classrooms Thursday without a new contract, after a ratification vote on a new pact failed. Read story

Letter carrier Curt Waser protects himself from wildfire smoke with a mask issued by the postal service as he walks his route through Uptown Village on Wednesday morning, Sept. 6, 2017.

Poor air conditions continue, but winds should help soon

Letter carrier Curt Waser protects himself from wildfire smoke with a mask issued by the postal service as he walks his route through Uptown Village on Wednesday morning, Sept. 6, 2017.

September 6, 2017, 12:04pm Clark County Health

With wildfires burning in three directions, smoke continues to linger over Southwest Washington, though it’s expected to begin a gradual decline in the coming days. Read story

Mike Jokela of Vancouver came out to Tuesday’s Clark County Historical Preservation Commission meeting because he wanted to “show that Vancouver doesn’t stand for hate.” Andy Bao/The Columbian

Jefferson Davis memorial debate draws a crowd for meeting

Mike Jokela of Vancouver came out to Tuesday’s Clark County Historical Preservation Commission meeting because he wanted to “show that Vancouver doesn’t stand for hate.” Andy Bao/The Columbian

September 6, 2017, 11:40am Clark County News

The conference room at the O.O. Howard House has a capacity of 50 people, but the Clark County Historical Preservation Commission never uses that many chairs. But on Tuesday night the group almost needed a larger room for the first time anyone could remember. Read story

DNR firefighter Chris Werner keeps an eye on the south line of the fire near Archer Mountain.

Evacuation warnings downgraded for some in Skamania County

DNR firefighter Chris Werner keeps an eye on the south line of the fire near Archer Mountain.

September 6, 2017, 11:35am Clark County News Free

The changes in warnings come as the Archer Mountain Fire moves north and east, away from residences. Forty houses remain threatened by the fire, which has grown to 75 acres. Read story

The 1902 Yacolt Burn stood as the largest fire in Washington history for 112 years, claiming 38 lives and advancing to the edge of Yacolt, as shown in this Weyerhaeuser Co. photograph taken about 1903.

Yacolt Burn exhibit in Battle Ground timely

The 1902 Yacolt Burn stood as the largest fire in Washington history for 112 years, claiming 38 lives and advancing to the edge of Yacolt, as shown in this Weyerhaeuser Co. photograph taken about 1903.

September 6, 2017, 6:02am Clark County News

For more than a century, the inferno that swept across stretches of Clark County in 1902 stood as the largest fire in Washington history. Read story

Jim Shank, left, and Colin Robertson of Washington State Department of Natural Resources join efforts to help fight the fire in Skamania on Tuesday afternoon.

Fires put infrastructure at risk; officials balance access, safety

Jim Shank, left, and Colin Robertson of Washington State Department of Natural Resources join efforts to help fight the fire in Skamania on Tuesday afternoon.

September 5, 2017, 9:39pm Clark County News Free

Fires burning in the Columbia River Gorge are threatening infrastructure from state parks to regional transmission lines, and officials are trying to balance access with safety. Read story

Joy Marley, who lives in west Skamania County, is joined by her German shepherds as she takes a call at the fairgrounds in Stevenson on Tuesday morning. Marley said she was evacuated at 2 a.m. and fled with her dogs to the site. “They are my family,” she said.

Evacuees in Stevenson can do little but watch, wait

Joy Marley, who lives in west Skamania County, is joined by her German shepherds as she takes a call at the fairgrounds in Stevenson on Tuesday morning. Marley said she was evacuated at 2 a.m. and fled with her dogs to the site. “They are my family,” she said.

September 5, 2017, 9:25pm Clark County News Free

On Monday night, people who’d evacuated from Cascade Locks, Ore., to the Hegewald Center here sat like an audience at an evening show, watching in horror as the whole landscape across the river blazed. Read story