fire
August 31, 2021
Land of fire and smoke
Ernesto Alvarado will be the first to tell you: You can’t suppress all of a region’s fires when they’re as much a part of the ecology as its flora and fauna.
March 1, 2006
Charges in arson
Four years after a blaze destroyed Merrill Hall, U.S. Attorney Karin Immergut has charged three members of "the Family," reputedly a secret eco-terrorist group, with conspiracy to commit arson.
December 1, 2002
From the ashes
Four months before 9/11, terrorism struck the UW when arsonists burned down parts of the Center for Urban Horticulture. Today, a new center is about to rise in its place.
June 1, 1997
Kincaid blaze destroys lab, burns evolution research
A zoologist's research went up in flames March 24 as a two-alarm fire caused more than $225,000 in structural damage to a fifth-floor laboratory in Kincaid Hall.
March 1, 1994
Fire silenced bells
A 37-year tradition suddenly went up in smoke on May 24, 1949, when the University of Washington's Chimes Tower burned down.