The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

Emergency services have been on the minds of Touchet Valley residents a lot this summer, what with four major building fires in Dayton and the Blue Creek Fire in Walla Walla County.

None of the causes of these fires has been determined for sure, but they’ve kept a lot of firefighters and other emergency personnel up a lot of nights in the last few weeks.

So it’s fitting that this week, Dayton and Waitsburg residents got to see many of these emergency management people during daylight hours and learn about what they do, during the annual National Night Out events.

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