Two rainbows brighten up the skies east of Chief Timothy Park as a firefighter puts out hot spots from a fire that jumped U.S. Highway 12 on Friday, July 5, 2019 west of Clarkston, Wash. The blaze, which started when a power line on the south side of the highway was blown down by heavy winds from a thunderstorm, burned approximately 10 acres of land near Chief Timothy Park and Silcott Grade Road.
Wildland firefighters watch and take video with their cellphones as a plane drops fire retardant on Harlow Ridge above the Lick Creek Fire, southwest of Asotin, Wash., Monday, July 12, 2021. The fire, which started last Wednesday, has now burned over 50,000 acres of land between Asotin County and Garfield County in southeast Washington state.
A charro attempts to flip a steer onto its back during a coleadero competition at the Gran Jaripeo at the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds in Chehalis, Wash. on Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013. Over a thousand people attended the Gran Jaripeo at the fairgrounds on Sunday which featured bull riding, horse dancing and the coleadero, which is an event in which horse riders chase down a steer at high speed in an attempt to grab its tale and flip it on to its back.
A bolt of lightning strikes over Lewiston, Idaho, behind the Interstate Bridge that spans the Snake River into Clarkston, Wash. on the morning of Thursday, July 1, 2021. Multiple thunderstorms moved through the area on Wednesday evening into Thursday morning.
Mercy Crocker, center, hugs graduate Lele Childs, right, as Ange Katunga, left, screams in celebration at the end of Centralia College's Commencement Ceremony on Friday, June 14, 2014, in Centralia, Wash.
The 2015 Miss Lewis County, Aubrey Hansen, of Chehalis, shares a moment with Bailey Peters, of Centralia, after winning the 2016 Miss Lewis County pageant on Saturday, March 12, 2016 in Chehalis, Wash.
People drop flowers into to the Cowlitz River in memory of Elizabeth Pham during a candle-light vigil on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2016, near Vader, Wash.
A dog leaps into the wave pool at the Asotin County Aquatic Center during the 2018 Lewis Clark Animal Shelter Dog Days of Summer Swim on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2018, in Clarkston, Wash. Dogs and their owners took over the aquatic center for the last day the pool was open this summer.
A porch umbrella being used as a rain cover couldn’t provide Rob Charpentier any protection as he runs away from the Chevy Camero that caught fire after he was spraying aerosol into the engine compartment while he and a some friends were working on getting the car running on Monday, March 30, 2020, in Lewiston, Idaho. Luckily, a nearby drum of water was dumped on the engine to put out the flames.
Josh Medrano, the bridge maintenance lead with the Washington State Department of Transportation South Central Region Bridge Crew, slowly walks down the spiral staircase from the top of the east tower on the Interstate Bridge as traffic passes approximately 80 feet below him Tuesday morning. The crew is spending the week in the area performing maintenance on the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley’s iconic bridge.
After the Chinese food he ordered fell out of its container while in the bag, Colby Mosman, 7, uses his fingers to eat the rest of his chow mien noodles on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, at the Lewis County Fair in Nezperce, Idaho. Earlier in the day Mosman showed a chicken.
Jack Froschauer, right, releases pigeons from several boxes stacked on the back of a flat-bed truck parked at Glen Steelhammer's property in Rochester, Wash. on Saturday, April 23, 2016. The pigeons, owned by various racers, were bound for Everett. The distance between Rochester and Everett — as the pigeon flies, of course — is 89 miles.
After evacuating his home due to quickly rising floodwaters from the Cispus River, Karl Sorrels, 37, returns to his chicken coup to find one of the fowls had died on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015, at his home at the Tower Rock U-Fish RV Park. Four of his five chickens lived through the flood.
Forrest Amos answers questions from a Chronicle reporter on Tuesday, June 24, 2014, at the Lewis County Jail in Chehalis, Wash.
Norman Gastfield reacts after public defender Robert Schroeter explains that he has been charged with first-degree child rape prior to his initial appearance in Lewis County Superior Court on Wednesday, April 23, 2014, at the Lewis County Law and Justice Center in Chehalis, Wash.
Ty Goeckner, 13, of Keuterville, prepares to take a big chomp out of a slice of watermelon during the kids division watermelon eating contest on Saturday, July 27, 2019, at Summerfest in Cottonwood, Idaho. Goeckner won the kids competition.
Chance Prosser, of Onalaska, kisses a horse that was rescued from neck-deep mud near a house east of Onalaska, Wash. on Tuesday, April 5, 2016. Prosser, who said he has been around horses his entire life, was one of a half-dozen of volunteers who helped remove the young horse.
Karlee Van Moos, left, a nine year old from Adna, has her hair combed by Natalie Loose, 9, Adna, while Ashlee Van Moos, right, walks by prior to the start of the junior livestock auction on Friday, Aug. 15, 2014 at the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds in Chehalis, Wash.
Children play under the table as their siblings, along with Lewis County Superior Court Judge James W. Lawler, sign official adoptions papers on Friday, Nov. 21, 2014, at a National Adoption Day ceremony at the Lewis County Law and Justice Center in Chehalis, Wash.
From left: Kimberly Ortiz, Angel Martinez, Ruvy Cruz and Lucia Hernandez raises their hands to answer a questions posed by Mossyrock Elementary School para-educator, Brenda Jones, center, during an English Language Learners class on Thursday, March 12, 2015.
Water falls off the branches of a noble fir tree as a man lifts the eight-foot-tall tree over his head before carrying it over to a large stack that will be wrapped in rope on Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, at Christmas Hills Tree Farm in Mossyrock, Wash.
University of Idaho graduates are silhouetted as they walk toward the entrance of the Kibbie Dome for the school's Spring Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 12, 2018 in Moscow, Idaho.
Joel Swecker, owner of Black River Taxidermy, works on stretching out and fitting a cape onto a polyurethane mannequin at his shop in Rochester, Wash. on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016.
Kent Eberhardt, left, and his twin brother, Kurt, both of Lewiston, wave flags in support of President Donald Trump while standing outside their truck on Main Street in downtown Lewiston on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. The brothers both wore their colorful costumes to their respective polling sites where they voted earlier in the day.
Liz Hill, owner of Mary's Corner Deli, and her daughter Taylor Anderson, left, embrace as they watch while firefighters battle a blaze at the restaurant and espresso stand on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014, at the intersection of U.S. Highway 12 and Jackson Highway south of Chehalis, Wash. No one was injured in the fire, but the building was completely destroyed.