A "Critical Fire Weather" red-flag warning is in effect from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. on July 2 for the Okanogan Valley, the Methow Valley, the foothills of the Central Washington Cascade Mountains, the ...

Wildfires are increasingly evolving into urban conflagrations. These are large-scale, destructive wildfires that converge into urban areas and spread from building to building.