Brush fire breaks out in Medical Lake

MEDICAL LAKE - Authorities responded to a fire burning grass, brush and light timber north of state Highway 902, east of Bartholomew Road, at 12:32 p.m. today.

The 100-plus-acre fire is burning northeast of the city and on Fairchild Air Force Base. Several homes and other buildings on the northeast side of the fire and off Bartholomew Road are threatened, but none are believed to have burned, a state Department of Natural Resources spokesman said.

Level 3 evacuation notices are in place for impacted homes, he said.

Personnel with the Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape division on base ha...