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{{Infobox wildfire|title=Range 12 fire|cost=Unknown|location=[[Benton County, Washington|Benton County]] and [[Yakima County, Washington|Yakima County]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]]|date={{start date|2016|07|30}} through {{end date and age|2016|08|04}}
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The '''Range 12 fire''' was started on July 30, 2016 ([[Pacific Time Zone|local time]]) in [[eastern Washington]] at the [[Yakima Training Center]] east of [[Yakima, Washington]] near [[Moxee, Washington]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cary |first=Annette |date=July 31, 2016 |title=Fires burn across Eastern Washington, some Prosser-area residents evacuated |work=[[Tri-City Herald]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=August 2, 2016 |title=Range 12 Fire: 90 percent contained,176,000 acres burned in Yakima, Benton Counties |url=https://kimatv.com/news/local/range-12-fire-burning-near-sunnyside-hanford-doubles-in-size-to-175000-acres?photo=1 |access-date=April 21, 2022 |website=[[KIMA-TV]] |language=en| last=Worthington | first=Sarah}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=July 30, 2016 |title=Photos: Up close at the Yakima Training Center fire |url=https://www.yakimaherald.com/photos_and_videos/news_photos/photos-up-close-at-the-yakima-training-center-fire/collection_161aeb40-56e7-11e6-af59-176a673bc7de.html |access-date=April 25, 2022 |website=Yakima Herald-Republic |language=en}}</ref> It quickly grew to over {{convert|176000|acre}} to cover parts of [[Yakima County, Washington|Yakima County]] and [[Benton County, Washington|Benton County]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Cary |first=Annette |date=August 3, 2016 |title=Range 12 fire 90% contained, 176,600 acres of Yakima, Benton counties scorched |work=[[Yakima Herald-Republic]] |url=http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/range-fire-contained-acres-of-yakima-benton-counties-scorched/article_5ccec802-5982-11e6-9a03-b7e43c3a4024.html |quote="Residents were told to evacuate their homes west of Prosser in the area of Ward Gap and Richards Roads early Sunday evening." |accessdate=August 23, 2016}}</ref> The fire was the third in recent years to affect the area surrounding the [[Hanford Reach National Monument]] and the [[Arid Lands Ecology Reserve]] near [[Rattlesnake Hills|Rattlesnake Ridge]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Cary |first=Annette |date=August 6, 2016 |title=Time needed for ravaged Hanford monument ecosystem to recover from third fire |work=[[Tri-City Herald]] |url=http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article94193832.html |accessdate=August 23, 2016}}</ref> The fire was eventually contained through the use of [[controlled burn]]s on [[Rattlesnake Mountain (Benton County, Washington)|Rattlesnake Mountain in Benton County]] due to concerns that the fire was getting too close to the [[Hanford Site|Hanford Nuclear Reservation]], which had recently been compared to the [[Fukushima nuclear disaster]] by [[Newsweek|Newsweek magazine]] earlier in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |title=To Prevent a Nuclear Disaster, Washington Firefighters Burned a Whole Mountain |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/wnxpkz/to-prevent-a-nuclear-disaster-washington-firefighters-burned-a-whole-mountain |access-date=April 21, 2022 |website=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] |date=August 3, 2016 | quote=The raging inferno, called the Range 12 Fire, threatened to summit Washington's Rattlesnake Mountain, and creep down the other side toward the Hanford Nuclear Site, an aging nuclear production complex that sits along the Columbia River. |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=May 3, 2016 |title=Nuclear Waste Leaking at 'American Fukushima' in Northwest |url=https://www.newsweek.com/hanford-nuclear-reservation-radioactive-waste-454808 |access-date=April 21, 2022 |website=Newsweek |language=en}}</ref> A lawsuit was filed by [[rancher]]s in the area due to loss of property, but was dismissed due to questions of jurisdiction.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 26, 2018 |title=$15M lawsuit filed over wildfire that threatened Hanford |work=[[Tri-City Herald]] |url=https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/crime/article196986384.html |access-date=April 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203043614/https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/crime/article196986384.html |archive-date=February 3, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Anderson et al v. United States of America et al |url=https://dockets.justia.com/docket/washington/waedce/1:2018cv03011/80045 |access-date=April 22, 2022 |website=Justia Dockets & Filings |language=en | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422011338/https://dockets.justia.com/docket/washington/waedce/1:2018cv03011/80045 | archive-date=April 22, 2022 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=2019May21court>{{Cite web |title=Anderson v. United States, No. 1:18-cv-003011-SAB |date=May 21, 2019 |url=https://casetext.com/case/anderson-v-united-states-371 |access-date=April 25, 2022 |website=casetext.com|quote=from Anderson v. United States, No. 1:18-cv-003011-SAB, (E.D. Wash. May. 21, 2019) "The Army training unit continued to engage in live fire training exercises through the afternoon on July 30, 2016. At approximately 4:40 p.m., one of the Army training unit's soldier's fired a machine gun at a target using tracer rounds. SJF ¶ 74. One of the tracer rounds ricocheted from the target area and landed on some brush, which started a brush fire. Id. The fire spread beyond the YTC and onto Plaintiffs' rangeland properties, causing property damage to Plaintiffs' cattle businesses."}}</ref> Even though there were no findings from the ''Anderson v. United States of America'' case, the dismissal document from May 21, 2019, points to a cause for the fire:<ref name=2019May21court />
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<blockquote>''The Army training unit continued to engage in live fire training exercises through the afternoon on July 30, 2016. At approximately 4:40 p.m., one of the Army training unit's soldier's fired a machine gun at a target using tracer rounds. SJF ¶ 74. One of the tracer rounds ricocheted from the target area and landed on some brush, which started a brush fire. Id. The fire spread beyond the YTC and onto Plaintiffs' rangeland properties, causing property damage to Plaintiffs' cattle businesses.''</blockquote>
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{{Infobox wildfire|title=Range 12 fire|cost=Unknown|location=[[Benton County, Washington|Benton County]] and [[Yakima County, Washington|Yakima County]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]]|date={{start date and age|2017|07|31}}|coordinates={{coord|46.587|-119.977|type:landmark|display=inline, title}}|pushpin_map=USA Washington|pushpin_map_caption=Location of fire in Washington|acres=over {{convert|176000|acre}}|is_season=yes|year=2016|season_name=Washington wildfires}}

The '''Range 12 Fire''' was started on July 31, 2016 in [[eastern Washington]], at the [[Yakima Training Center]] northeast of [[Yakima, Washington]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cary |first=Annette |date=July 31, 2016 |title=Fires burn across Eastern Washington, some Prosser-area residents evacuated |work=[[Tri-Cities Herald]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=August 2, 2016 |title=Range 12 Fire: 90 percent contained,176,000 acres burned in Yakima, Benton Counties |url=https://kimatv.com/news/local/range-12-fire-burning-near-sunnyside-hanford-doubles-in-size-to-175000-acres?photo=1 |access-date=2022-04-21 |website=[[KIMA-TV]] |language=en| last=Worthington | first=Sarah}}</ref> It quickly grew to over {{convert|176000|acre}} to cover parts of [[Yakima County, Washington|Yakima County]] and [[Benton County, Washington|Benton County]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Cary |first=Annette |date=August 3, 2016 |title=Range 12 fire 90% contained, 176,600 acres of Yakima, Benton counties scorched |work=[[Yakima Herald-Republic]] |url=http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/range-fire-contained-acres-of-yakima-benton-counties-scorched/article_5ccec802-5982-11e6-9a03-b7e43c3a4024.html |quote="Residents were told to evacuate their homes west of Prosser in the area of Ward Gap and Richards Roads early Sunday evening." |accessdate=August 23, 2016}}</ref> The fire was the third in recent years to affect the area surrounding the [[Hanford Reach National Monument]] and the [[Arid Lands Ecology Reserve]], but was eventually contained through the use of [[Controlled burn|controlled burns]] near [[Rattlesnake Hills|Rattlesnake Ridge]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Cary |first=Annette |date=August 6, 2016 |title=Time needed for ravaged Hanford monument ecosystem to recover from third fire |work=[[Tri-City Herald]] |url=http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article94193832.html |accessdate=August 23, 2016}}</ref>
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== Other sources ==
== Other sources ==
* [[Remote Sensing (journal)]]
* [[Remote Sensing (journal)]]
** {{Cite journal |last=Ba |first=Rui |last2=Song |first2=Weiguo |last3=Li |first3=Xiaolian |last4=Xie |first4=Zixi |last5=Lo |first5=Siuming |date=2019-02-06 |title=Integration of Multiple Spectral Indices and a Neural Network for Burned Area Mapping Based on MODIS Data |url=https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/3/326 |journal=Remote Sensing |language=en |volume=11 |issue=3 |pages=326 |doi=10.3390/rs11030326 |issn=2072-4292}}
** {{Cite journal |last1=Ba |first1=Rui |last2=Song |first2=Weiguo |last3=Li |first3=Xiaolian |last4=Xie |first4=Zixi |last5=Lo |first5=Siuming |date=February 6, 2019 |title=Integration of Multiple Spectral Indices and a Neural Network for Burned Area Mapping Based on MODIS Data |journal=Remote Sensing |language=en |volume=11 |issue=3 |pages=326 |doi=10.3390/rs11030326 |bibcode=2019RemS...11..326B |issn=2072-4292|doi-access=free }}
** Research about using satellite imagery to track fires on the ground. Much of their research was about the Range 12 fire.
** Research about using satellite imagery to track fires on the ground. Much of their research was about the Range 12 fire.
* [[University of Washington]]
* [[University of Washington]]
** {{Cite web |title=Monitoring Impacts to Rare Plant Populations from Range 12 Fire - UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON |url=https://portal.nifa.usda.gov/web/crisprojectpages/1012759-monitoring-impacts-to-rare-plant-populations-from-range-12-fire.html |access-date=2022-04-21 |website=portal.nifa.usda.gov}} &mdash; research about potential rare (and possibly endangered) species near the [[Hanford Site]] that may have been impacted by the Range 12 fire.
** {{Cite web |title=Monitoring Impacts to Rare Plant Populations from Range 12 Fire - UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON |url=https://portal.nifa.usda.gov/web/crisprojectpages/1012759-monitoring-impacts-to-rare-plant-populations-from-range-12-fire.html |access-date=April 21, 2022 |website=portal.nifa.usda.gov}} &mdash; research about potential rare (and possibly endangered) species near the [[Hanford Site]] that may have been impacted by the Range 12 fire.
* [[Vice (magazine)]]
** {{Cite web |title=To Prevent a Nuclear Disaster, Washington Firefighters Burned a Whole Mountain |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/wnxpkz/to-prevent-a-nuclear-disaster-washington-firefighters-burned-a-whole-mountain |access-date=2022-04-21 |website=[[Vice (magazine)]] |language=en}}
** Some of the concern about this fire being near the [[Hanford Site]]. A quote: "''The raging inferno, called the Range 12 Fire, threatened to summit Washington's Rattlesnake Mountain, and creep down the other side toward the Hanford Nuclear Site, an aging nuclear production complex that sits along the Columbia River.''"
** The concern about the fire was about the fire in the [[Rattlesnake Hills]] and on [[Rattlesnake Mountain (Benton County, Washington)|Rattlesnake Mountain in Benton County]]
* [[Newsweek]]
** {{Cite web |date=2016-05-03 |title=Nuclear Waste Leaking at 'American Fukushima' in Northwest |url=https://www.newsweek.com/hanford-nuclear-reservation-radioactive-waste-454808 |access-date=2022-04-21 |website=Newsweek |language=en}} - An article that compares the [[Hanford Site]] to the [[Fukushima nuclear disaster]]
* [[KIMA-TV]] — [[Yakima, Washington]]
* [[KIMA-TV]] — [[Yakima, Washington]]
** {{Cite web |date=2016-08-02 |title=Range 12 Fire: 90 percent contained,176,000 acres burned in Yakima, Benton Counties |url=https://kimatv.com/news/local/range-12-fire-burning-near-sunnyside-hanford-doubles-in-size-to-175000-acres?photo=1 |access-date=2022-04-21 |website=[[KIMA-TV]] |language=en}}
** {{Cite web |date=August 2, 2016 |title=Range 12 Fire: 90 percent contained,176,000 acres burned in Yakima, Benton Counties |url=https://kimatv.com/news/local/range-12-fire-burning-near-sunnyside-hanford-doubles-in-size-to-175000-acres?photo=1 |access-date=April 21, 2022 |website=[[KIMA-TV]] |language=en}}
** This citation contains helpful pictures and a map, and points out that the fire started at the [[Yakima Training Center]].
** This citation contains helpful pictures and a map, and points out that the fire started at the [[Yakima Training Center]].
* [[KEPR-TV]]
* [[KEPR-TV]]
** {{Cite web |date=2016-08-01 |title=Range 12 Fire Map: Officials say 70,000 acres burning in Yakima, Benton Counties |url=https://keprtv.com/news/local/range-12-fire-map-officials-say-over-60000-acres-burning-in-yakima-benton-counties?photo=3 |access-date=2022-04-21 |website=[[KEPR-TV]] |language=en}}
** {{Cite web |date=August 1, 2016 |title=Range 12 Fire Map: Officials say 70,000 acres burning in Yakima, Benton Counties |url=https://keprtv.com/news/local/range-12-fire-map-officials-say-over-60000-acres-burning-in-yakima-benton-counties?photo=3 |access-date=April 21, 2022 |website=[[KEPR-TV]] |language=en}}
** Link to map provided by [[KEPR-TV]] on August 1, when the fire was still out of control north of [[Sunnyside, Washington]]
** Link to map provided by [[KEPR-TV]] on August 1, when the fire was still out of control north of [[Sunnyside, Washington]]
* [[Tri-Cities Herald]]
* [[Tri-City Herald]]
** {{Cite news |date=January 26, 2018 |title=$15M lawsuit filed over wildfire that threatened Hanford |work=[[Tri-Cities Herald]] |url=https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/crime/article196986384.html |access-date=2022-04-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203043614/https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/crime/article196986384.html |archive-date=2018-02-03}}
** {{Cite news |date=January 26, 2018 |title=$15M lawsuit filed over wildfire that threatened Hanford |work=[[Tri-City Herald]] |url=https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/crime/article196986384.html |access-date=April 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203043614/https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/crime/article196986384.html |archive-date=February 3, 2018}}
** Story about the lawsuit filed a couple of years after the fire.
** Story about the lawsuit filed a couple of years after the fire.
* [[WBUR-FM]]
* [[WBUR-FM]]
** {{Cite web |date=September 6, 2016| last=King|first=Anna|title=Washington State Wildfire Destroys Sensitive Habitat On National Land |url=https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/09/06/washington-wildfire |access-date=2022-04-21 |website=[[WBUR-FM]] / [[Northwest News Network]] |language=en}}
** {{Cite web |date=September 6, 2016| last=King|first=Anna|title=Washington State Wildfire Destroys Sensitive Habitat On National Land |url=https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/09/06/washington-wildfire |access-date=April 21, 2022 |website=[[WBUR-FM]] / [[Northwest News Network]] |language=en}}
*[[Yale University Press]]
*[[Yale University Press]]
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** Quote from the book: "''In the summer of 2016, numerous large wildfires threatened to spread across the Hanford Reservation. Most concerning was the Range 12 fire that spread from Grant and Yakima Counties into Benton County, where the sprawling nuclear site is located. The fire threatened to summit Rattlesnake Mountain and spread into the Hanford Nuclear Site itself.''"
** Quote from the book: "''In the summer of 2016, numerous large wildfires threatened to spread across the Hanford Reservation. Most concerning was the Range 12 fire that spread from Grant and Yakima Counties into Benton County, where the sprawling nuclear site is located. The fire threatened to summit Rattlesnake Mountain and spread into the Hanford Nuclear Site itself.''"
* [[Seattle Times]]
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** {{Cite web |date=August 4, 2016 |title=Yakima area wildfire is 90 percent contained |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/yakima-area-wildfire-is-90-percent-contained/ |access-date=April 24, 2022 |website=The Seattle Times |language=en-US |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806162323/https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/yakima-area-wildfire-is-90-percent-contained/ |quote=[[Yakima Herald-Republic]] |archive-date=August 6, 2016}}
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* [[Yakima Herald-Republic]] - July 30, 2016
** {{Cite news |title=Photos: Up close at the Yakima Training Center fire |date=July 30, 2016 |url=https://www.yakimaherald.com/photos_and_videos/news_photos/photos-up-close-at-the-yakima-training-center-fire/collection_161aeb40-56e7-11e6-af59-176a673bc7de.html |access-date=April 25, 2022 |website=Yakima Herald-Republic |language=en | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220424235809/https://www.yakimaherald.com/photos_and_videos/news_photos/photos-up-close-at-the-yakima-training-center-fire/collection_161aeb40-56e7-11e6-af59-176a673bc7de.html | archive-date=April 24, 2022 | url-status=live }}


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Range 12 fire
Date(s)July 30, 2016 (2016-07-30) through August 4, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-08-04)
StandortBenton County and Yakima County, Washington
Coordinates46°35′13″N 119°58′37″W / 46.587°N 119.977°W / 46.587; -119.977
Statistics
Burned areaover 176,000 acres (71,000 ha)
Impacts
DamageUnknown
Map
Range 12 Fire is located in Washington (state)
Range 12 Fire
Location of fire in Washington
Season
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The Range 12 fire was started on July 30, 2016 (local time) in eastern Washington at the Yakima Training Center east of Yakima, Washington near Moxee, Washington.[1][2][3] It quickly grew to over 176,000 acres (71,000 ha) to cover parts of Yakima County and Benton County.[4] The fire was the third in recent years to affect the area surrounding the Hanford Reach National Monument and the Arid Lands Ecology Reserve near Rattlesnake Ridge.[5] The fire was eventually contained through the use of controlled burns on Rattlesnake Mountain in Benton County due to concerns that the fire was getting too close to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, which had recently been compared to the Fukushima nuclear disaster by Newsweek magazine earlier in 2016.[6][7] A lawsuit was filed by ranchers in the area due to loss of property, but was dismissed due to questions of jurisdiction.[8][9][10] Even though there were no findings from the Anderson v. United States of America case, the dismissal document from May 21, 2019, points to a cause for the fire:[10]

The Army training unit continued to engage in live fire training exercises through the afternoon on July 30, 2016. At approximately 4:40 p.m., one of the Army training unit's soldier's fired a machine gun at a target using tracer rounds. SJF ¶ 74. One of the tracer rounds ricocheted from the target area and landed on some brush, which started a brush fire. Id. The fire spread beyond the YTC and onto Plaintiffs' rangeland properties, causing property damage to Plaintiffs' cattle businesses.

References

  1. ^ Cary, Annette (July 31, 2016). "Fires burn across Eastern Washington, some Prosser-area residents evacuated". Tri-City Herald.
  2. ^ Worthington, Sarah (August 2, 2016). "Range 12 Fire: 90 percent contained,176,000 acres burned in Yakima, Benton Counties". KIMA-TV. Retrieved April 21, 2022.
  3. ^ "Photos: Up close at the Yakima Training Center fire". Yakima Herald-Republic. July 30, 2016. Retrieved April 25, 2022.
  4. ^ Cary, Annette (August 3, 2016). "Range 12 fire 90% contained, 176,600 acres of Yakima, Benton counties scorched". Yakima Herald-Republic. Retrieved August 23, 2016. Residents were told to evacuate their homes west of Prosser in the area of Ward Gap and Richards Roads early Sunday evening.
  5. ^ Cary, Annette (August 6, 2016). "Time needed for ravaged Hanford monument ecosystem to recover from third fire". Tri-City Herald. Retrieved August 23, 2016.
  6. ^ "To Prevent a Nuclear Disaster, Washington Firefighters Burned a Whole Mountain". Vice. August 3, 2016. Retrieved April 21, 2022. The raging inferno, called the Range 12 Fire, threatened to summit Washington's Rattlesnake Mountain, and creep down the other side toward the Hanford Nuclear Site, an aging nuclear production complex that sits along the Columbia River.
  7. ^ "Nuclear Waste Leaking at 'American Fukushima' in Northwest". Newsweek. May 3, 2016. Retrieved April 21, 2022.
  8. ^ "$15M lawsuit filed over wildfire that threatened Hanford". Tri-City Herald. January 26, 2018. Archived from the original on February 3, 2018. Retrieved April 21, 2022.
  9. ^ "Anderson et al v. United States of America et al". Justia Dockets & Filings. Archived from the original on April 22, 2022. Retrieved April 22, 2022.
  10. ^ a b "Anderson v. United States, No. 1:18-cv-003011-SAB". casetext.com. May 21, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2022. from Anderson v. United States, No. 1:18-cv-003011-SAB, (E.D. Wash. May. 21, 2019) "The Army training unit continued to engage in live fire training exercises through the afternoon on July 30, 2016. At approximately 4:40 p.m., one of the Army training unit's soldier's fired a machine gun at a target using tracer rounds. SJF ¶ 74. One of the tracer rounds ricocheted from the target area and landed on some brush, which started a brush fire. Id. The fire spread beyond the YTC and onto Plaintiffs' rangeland properties, causing property damage to Plaintiffs' cattle businesses."

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