2 firefighters arrested at Washington’s Bear Gulch Fire amid Border Patrol operation Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez August 28, 2025 / 11:46 am

Videos posted to social media and shared with KUOW show federal agents arresting two firefighters working on the Bear Gulch fire on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula on Wednesday.

Rachel Lipski, a public information officer from the Western Washington Type 3 Incident Management Team, said they’re “aware” of a Border Patrol operation at the Bear Gulch fire, but it’s “not interfering” with efforts to contain the fire.

In a statement Thursday, Sen. Patty Murray slammed the arrests as unnecessary, and demanded “immediate answers” as to why the men were arrested on the job, and what the immigration enforcement policy is during active wildfires.

“Here in

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