Sheriff’s precinct fire ruled arson

BUENA, Wash. – Arson was the cause of a fire that gutted a Yakima County sheriff’s precinct, investigators said.

The fire appears to have been started in an office in the back of the 2,000-square-foot building. A window was broken, sheriff’s Lt. Max James said.

The fire was reported Sunday night.

No one was in the building at the time.