In Focus: The Chronicle’s 2022 Photos of the Year

First responders aid Centralia Police Officer Stephen Summers, a K9 handler, as he walks into an ambulance after being stabbed while attempting to contact a suspect with a weapon Feb. 18. Summers was treated and released from Providence Centralia Hospital the following day with the exit lined by applauding emergency responders. The suspect was shot and killed by police.

A Department of Natural Resources helicopter flies over a forest fire in Bucoda while dropping water Aug. 8 near the intersection of Highway 507 and Troy Avenue.

A column of smoke and embers rise as firefighters use hoses to douse flames scorching the Winlock Haunted Hostel Bed and Breakfast on Nov. 8. The fire completely destroyed the upper floors of the building, which has since been demolished by the city.

Kimberley Parkison and a friend row through waters just off U.S. Highway 12 in Rochester to get to her home, which had a few inches of water in it, on Jan. 8. Shortly after, Parkison got out of the canoe and walked it through a deep current.

Dalton South, 12, of Pe Ell, smiles for a photo with Bacon, a Yorkshire-mix, at the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds on Aug. 15.

Silly String and confetti flies as W.F. West graduates celebrate at Bearcat Stadium in Chehalis on June 11.

Flames from the Goat Rocks Fire ignite trees Oct. 16 as seen from Cannon Road in Packwood over Butler Creek.

A car is seen stranded after driving through floodwater along Airport Road in Chehalis during early January flooding.

Mountain goats and their kids were visible from the Johnston Ridge Observatory at Mount St. Helens when Chronicle Photo Editor Jared Wenzelburger visited in June. This photo was captured just days after the observatory opened for the first time in two years due to pandemic restrictions.

A dilapidated house crumbles into the Chehalis River along an eroded bank downstream of the Satsop River confluence in late May.

Michael “Murph” Murphy and Vicky Williams smile and look on as Mitchell Smith rigs Uzi the avalanche cat up with a toboggan pulling a stuffed figure of Snoopy outside patrol dispatch at the top of the Great White Express chairlift at the White Pass Ski Resort on Feb. 6.

A rider is thrown from a bucking bull during a Lazy HK Bar Rodeo Winter Series event in Silver Creek on March 26.

The moon rises above a line of trees seen from U.S. Highway 12.

Embers fly as firefighters work to put out hot spots near the southbound lane of Interstate 5 at milepost 88 in Grand Mound on Aug. 25.

The Chehalis River flows past the Satsop Business Park on Friday, May 20, 2022.

Recently hatched emus huddle together at 3 Feathers Emu Ranch and Farm in Adna in late April. The emus were hatched after a power outage that owners feared would prevent them from hatching.

An elk wanders through a Packwood yard as smoke from the Goat Rocks Fire rises from the Gifford Pinchot National Forest Oct. 16.

A young rider begins to slip as she holds on to the neck of a sheep Aug. 22 at the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds.