Immigration conducts operation at site of fire

Immigration officials conducted an operation at the site of the largest wildfire in Washington state, fire officials said Wednesday. The incident appeared to be a rare case of federal officials enforcing immigration laws at the site of an emergency.

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Officials in charge of fighting the Bear Gulch fire in the Olympic National Forest, west of Seattle, said in a brief statement Wednesday night that they were “aware of a Border Patrol operation” at the site of the fire.

Hours earlier, The Seattle Times newspaper reported that two people fighting the blaze had been arrested earlier in the day. It cited interviews with firefighters, whom it did not name, and what it described as video of a confrontation between the firefighters and law enforcement agents.