Washington firefighters continue monitoring a number of small brushfires that flared up late last week and weekend. It is a phenomenon firefighters are seeing more frequently and earlier in the year as each wildfire season moves into western Washington. The men and women of Graham Fire & Rescue have been drilling for brushfires multiple times each week. They demonstrated their tactics Monday morning for Q13 News only days after deploying them on a real brushfire near Eatonville on Friday. "We’re really changed how we respond to these fires," said GFR’s Steve Richards. The brushfire near Eatonville wasn’t large. The blaze barely chewed through 8 acres, but homes and structures were at one point threatened. Air support from state DNR helped douse the blaze from above. The brushfire took neighbors by surprise. "It scared me," neighbor Rick Doyle said last week. "It got really close." Another fire sparked farther north in King County near Auburn during the weekend.