We often see devastating disasters, car wrecks, water rescues, and shootings on TV... but in real life, the emotional weight behind it is entirely different. For firefighters, talking about what they see on the job isn't their favorite topic. It's a tragedy that made national headlines in Spokane County: four students shot and one of them killed at Freeman High School.
- PUB DATE: 3/20/2018 7:29:26 PM - SOURCE: NBCRightNow.com

The Northwest region's incident management teams are getting ready for fire season. 10 teams from Alaska,Oregon and Washington all joined the annual pre-wildfire season meeting in Yakima. It gives responders a chance to review what they can expect in the season ahead and prepare what they need. In 2017 the teams responded 35 times and this year they hope it's more controllable.
- PUB DATE: 3/20/2018 6:43:07 PM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

No Spokane city employee could earn more than $182,000 annually under a package of changes to City Hall’s budgeting process being proposed by Council President Ben Stuckart. “We’re not the private sector, we’re the public sector,” said Stuckart, who doesn’t expect a vote on the measure until next month at the earliest.
- PUB DATE: 3/20/2018 6:34:36 AM - SOURCE: Spokane Spokesman-Review

No one was home when a fire started in the Bremerton home. The blaze, investigators believe, was intentionally set. The woman who lives there was out of town at a funeral. Firefighters found flames coming through the roof. And a fire marshal believes the blaze, which started in the kitchen, was arson.
- PUB DATE: 3/19/2018 9:28:26 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

Crews worked to secure a tall section of leaning scaffolding that somehow broke loose from the side of a building under construction in downtown Seattle Monday evening. Seattle Police and Seattle Fire were called to the scene at Howell Street and Minor Ave. just before 5 p.m. The scaffolding could be seen slightly leaning away from the building.
- PUB DATE: 3/19/2018 9:28:25 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000