News broke earlier this week that Border Patrol agents had arrested two firefighters at the Bear Gulch fire on the Olympic Peninsula.
Now the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is criticizing media reports and clarifying that the arrests they made were of workers in a support role, not directly fighting the wildfire.
The Seattle Times reported on Wednesday that two people fighting the Bear Gulch fire were detained by federal law enforcement — a story that sparked outrage among Washington lawmakers and was picked up by the national media…