Last week, a fire damaged Sparky's Subs on Mission Avenue near Spokane Community College and its neighboring restaurant, Que Sabroso. The fire began in Sparky's Subs and spread to Que Sabroso, which planned to open its doors for the first time on March 1. Now, both restaurants are closed until further notice.
- PUB DATE: 2/29/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

Forestry education is coming to the Key Peninsula. Beginning April 4, Washington State University’s extension forestry service will offer its flagship nine-week forest stewardship course to local landowners. The course is broad-based, covering topics like tree biology, soil, wildlife, disease, thinning, safe harvest, invasive weeds and fire risk.
- PUB DATE: 2/29/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Key Peninsula News

Clallam County Fire District 3 leaders have started forming a community paramedic program to help residents make non-emergency phone 9-1-1 phone calls. Battalion Chief Elliott Jones said at a Feb. 13 fire commissioner special meeting that of Fire District 3’s approximate 8,500 annual emergency calls a year, about 1,800 are low acuity (low emergency).
- PUB DATE: 2/28/2024 6:30:00 AM - SOURCE: Sequim Gazette Online

Firefighters have been working to put out a "fully-involved" structure fire at an old plant in Polk County that went up in flames Tuesday afternoon. The City of Cedartown said in a social media post that the fire engulfed the old Jockey plant on West Avenue. They asked that residents avoid the area and find other ways to travel.
- PUB DATE: 2/28/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIA-TV NBC 11 Atlanta

VIDEO: First responders in Jeffersontown are celebrating the grand opening of their brand-new fire and EMS Station. The ribbon cutting for Station 54 happened Monday morning at the new firehouse on Taylorsville Road, near the Gene Snyder. The project has been in the works for about five years. The firehouse will be staffed around the clock.
- PUB DATE: 2/28/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAVE-TV NBC 3 Louisville