1.   The blaze doubled in size, jumped the Yakima River near the Wanawish Dam, threatened homes in West Richland and consumed some outside Benton City.

2.   A wind-driven wildfire exploded overnight, more than doubling in size, as it burned into Glacier National Park and threatened homes.

3.   Firefighters urged residents to voluntarily evacuate their threatened homes, but most ignored the warning.

4.   Firefighters used the respite to make firebreaks and carry out controlled burns in forests and around threatened homes.

5.   Firefighters urged residents to voluntarily evacuate their threatened homes, but most have ignored the warning.

6.   Residents used buckets and garden hoses to wet their threatened homes.

7.   The threatened homes include one owned by celebrity attorney Gerry Spence.

8.   Threatened homes included slope-roofed, post-modern country houses typically sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars.