{"id":358975,"date":"2026-09-03T16:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/teenager-arrested-and-5-others-sought-in-deadly-july-4-fire-in-washington-state"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:48:21","slug":"teenager-arrested-and-5-others-sought-in-deadly-july-4-fire-in-washington-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/teenager-arrested-and-5-others-sought-in-deadly-july-4-fire-in-washington-state","title":{"rendered":"Teenager arrested and 5 others sought in lethal July 4 fireplace in Washington state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">EAST WENATCHEE, Wash. &#8212; <\/span>An 18-year-old in Washington state has been arrested for the investigation of manslaughter and arson in connection with a deadly July 4 fire, a county sheriff said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The teen from Kent was among a group of people setting off illegal fireworks from the back of a truck when one landed in roadside brush, igniting the fast-moving blaze, Douglas County Sheriff Tyler Caille said. He said authorities were also seeking arrest warrants for five others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Chelan Hills Fire burned roughly 15.6 square miles (40.4 square kilometers), destroyed more than 100 structures and left one person dead, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The victim was identified earlier this week as Robert Lister, a 69-year-old Orondo resident, whose vehicle had slid off the road and was consumed by the flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Caille urged the others accused of launching illegal fireworks to turn themselves in, or \u201cwe will come find you.\u201d He said all are over 18 and are \u201ccomplicit with the same crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/teenager-arrested-5-sought-deadly-july-4-fire-136187050\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST WENATCHEE, Wash. &#8212; An 18-year-old in Washington state has been arrested for the investigation of manslaughter and arson in connection with a deadly July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":352871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3915,34845,5167,446,34844,34846,636],"class_list":["post-358975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-county-sheriff","tag-east-wenatchee","tag-fireplace","tag-law-crime","tag-robert-lister","tag-tyler-caille","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358977,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358975\/revisions\/358977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}