Nearly 1,300 people will get to work on projects around the city Saturday for the annual Seattle Works Day.

The nonprofit Seattle Works organizes the annual event offering people a chance to join a team and dig in on a service project.

You can form your own team or join a team formed by someone you know.

People will volunteer from noon to 3:30 p.m. and then celebrate the day with a party at Seattle Center.

If you are booked on Saturday, you can also join as a "virtual team member."

King County Metro Transit is offering free bus rides for bicyclists this week.

The offer is for any cyclist loading a bike on a Metro bus or Sound Transit Express bus operated by Metro.

Metro is trying to encourage people to try bike-and-bus trips during National Bike Month.

The Sound Transit Express routes included are 540, 542, 545, 550, 554, 555, 556 and 560. (It does not apply to Link light rail, Sounder, the South Lake Union Streetcar, or the King County Water Taxi.)

If you are worried about holding up a packed bus while trying to load your bike, Metro has practice bike racks at North Seattle Community College, the University of Washington, Bellevue College, Alki Bike and Board in West Seattle, and at the offices of the Bicycle Alliance of Washington in Pioneer Square.

A dryer fire quickly spread inside a Lake City home forcing the residents to evacuate, said fire officials.

Just after 8:00a.m. emergency dispatchers received a report of a fire in the 10300 block of 38th Ave. NE.

When crews arrived on scene they could see flames shooting through the front door and heavy smoke coming from the first floor.

“This was a stubborn fire. We had to cut major holes in the roof to not only vent the fire, give it a place to go, but also to cut out some of the hot spots,” said Kyle Moore, spokesman for the Seattle Fire Department.

Firefighters were able to knock down the flames but crews remained on scene for several hours checking for any hot spots.

The homeowner originally attempted to put the fire out himself, using a blanket to try and suffocate the flames, but Moore said that only made things worse.

“When he tried to put it out himself the fire then extended up through the stair case and into the attic. It kept expanding and that’s when he got out and called us.”

Both of the residents made it out safely, without injury.