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TGIF, and welcome to the long Labor Day weekend. From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle now.

I'm Paige Browning. We've got today's top stories for you as you hit the road for the weekend or, like me, hunker down in town. It's Friday, August 29th.

Lawyers are demanding the release of a longtime Oregon resident who was arrested by Border Patrol while fighting a Washington state wildfire. Today, his attorneys said

the firefighter was already on track for legal status after helping federal investigators

solve a crime against his family. They say they've not been able to locate him in the system

and are demanding his release. His lawyers argue his arrest was illegal because Department of Homeland

Security policies say authorities can't do immigration enforcement in places where disaster

and emergency response is happening. Border patrol officials say the two firefighters arrested

at the Bear Gulch fire were in the country unlawfully. The agency says it was called to the

site by the Bureau of Land Management to verify employment of private contractors. David Diaz is a crew boss

on one of the teams and saw the arrests happen. We know the process now of what they expect and what we

expect now on both ends to make things right so we could keep moving forward.

The contracts with two of the companies were suspended and 42 workers sent home, accounting for a loss of 10% of the workforce on the fire.

Governor Bob Ferguson says his team's contacting federal agencies to get information about why on-the-job firefighters were apprehended.

Speaking of fires, lightning strikes caused at least three small wildfires yesterday in the North Cascades National Park.

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