Firefighters wait to board a crew helicopter while working the Bear Gulch Fire on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula in this provided image from August 2025. Image via Inciweb An Oregon firefighter who was arrested by immigration agents while battling a wildfire last month has been released and is back home, his attorneys announced Wednesday. Rigoberto Hernandez Hernandez, 23, said he is …
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WA lawmaker denied entry to ICE facility where Bear Gulch crew members are detained KOMO Lawmakers push for answers days after Border Patrol detains crew workers helping firefighters in Washington blaze CNN Border Patrol arrested firefighters as they were battling a wildfire The Washington Post Fire crew arrests: Congress members demand answers The Seattle Times Lawyer: Keizer firefighter arrested by Border Patrol while fighting …
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TACOMA — A Washington Congresswoman says that she was illegally denied entry into an immigration detention center where two men were being held after they were detained by U.S Border Patrol while working at the Bear Gulch wildfire this week, following claims they are illegally present in the country. The two men, who were government contractors working at the fire, …
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SEATTLE — Two firefighters who were part of a 44-person crew fighting a wildland blaze on Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula were taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents during a multiagency criminal investigation into the two contractors they worked for, federal authorities said Thursday. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management asked the Border Patrol to help check the workers’ …
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