Another wildfire set ablaze by lightning in Eastern Washington

The Snag Canyon Fire is the newest inferno raging across Central Washington.

Lightning set it off Saturday around 6 p.m. and it’s already burned at least eight homes.

Janet Pierce with the Department of Natural Resources says the fire is threatening 180 homes in the area, about 12 miles north of Ellensburg.

“This exceeded the local resources we had on that fire,” explains Pierce. “They called in a type 2 incident management team and they’ll be in place an able to estimate how big the fire is hopefully get a handle on this before it gets any bigger.”

Meanwhile, the largest fire in state history — the Carlton Complex in Okanogan County — is more than 80-percent contained.