Posted: Feb 16, 2024
The Ephrata Fire Department was dispatched at 11:20 p.m. on February 14, 2024, for a residential structure fire in the 500 block of D St. SE in Ephrata, Washington. A neighbor reported the home on fire across the street from her.
Upon arrival fire crews observed a fully engulfed double wide mobile home.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Big Country News
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Posted: Feb 16, 2024
VIDEO/PHOTOS: The Seattle fire chief said his department is feeling the strain of increased calls and crime in the city and has lost people from burnout as a result.
In a briefing in front of the Seattle council’s public safety committee, Harold Scoggins said he’s down 125 people from a full staff and cited the increase in overdose calls, encampment fires and vacant structure responses as reasons behind it all.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle
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Posted: Feb 16, 2024
To help promote awareness and prevention of wildfires, the Washington State Department of National Resources (DNR) has released four new animated safety explainer videos.
Teaming up with Next Day Animations, the DNR hopes that the videos will help reduce human-caused wildfires, as they grow larger and faster.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6 Spokane
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Posted: Feb 16, 2024
February is American Heart Health Month and the Pasco School District is partnering with the Pasco Fire Department to help teach elementary school kids hands-only CPR.
Leaders from the Pasco Fire Department say it's never too early to teach a child how to save a life. They tell us they're starting with the basics.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KEPR-TV CBS 19 Pasco
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Posted: Feb 15, 2024
Two paramedics in Massachusetts avoided a catastrophe while transporting a patient in an ambulance on Interstate 95 during Tuesday's nor'easter.
Cataldo Ambulance Service paramedic Tim Crosbie was driving the Atlantic Ambulance Service vehicle on I-95 south in Peabody shortly before 1 p.m. when a car that was traveling on the northbound side of the highway came across the median and rolled over across multiple lanes on the southbound side.
- PUB DATE: 2/15/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCVB-TV ABC 5 Boston
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