Railroad Fire evacuation notices canceled
Evacuation notices for communities and residences threatened by the Railroad Fire were canceled Sunday night.
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MATTAWA — All evacuation notifications for the Railroad Fire near Beverly have been canceled as of Sunday evening. All roads have reopened.
The evacuation levels were downgraded Saturday night, and canceled at about 7 p.m. Sunday for Beverly, Schwana, Smyrna and Lower Crab Creek, according to a notification from the Grant County Sheriff’s Office. Crab Creek Road has reopened.
The fire started late at about 11 p.m. Wednesday and had burned about 8,400 acres as of Saturday night. Seven residences were destroyed, but no one has been injured, according to information from the Southeast Washington Incident Interagency Management Team.