A big fire at an auto wrecking yard near Kent took hours to put out Sunday. The fire broke out around 1:15 a.m. Sunday, at Binford Metals in Kent, an auto salvage business on 78th Ave. S., ...

“This time of year, we’re in our spring fire season, and all the vegetation is dead and brown due to winter. And when it gets dry and windy, we can have big catastrophic fires like this ...