Both people whose bodies were found inside a burning home in Spokane Valley died of gunshot wounds to the head. The Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the second victim Thursday as 70-year-old Bobby Kihara. The medical examiner says the circumstances of the shooting remain under investigation.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2017 2:28:41 PM - SOURCE: KAYU-TV MyFox Spokane

Firefighters are battling flames at the Fircrest School property in Shoreline. The fire started at about 9 a.m. at the building at 155th Street and 15th Avenue Northeast. The Fircrest Residential Habilitation Center houses about 200 people with mental disabilities. The laundry facility is the building that caught fire.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2017 11:15:00 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7

A man and a 4-year-old boy were killed overnight in a fire at an Auburn fourplex. Firefighters were called around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday to the 2600 block of O St NE to the report of people trapped inside a fire. Fire crews said police arrived at the scene first but without proper equipment were unable to rescue them.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2017 7:47:14 AM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13

Wildland fires in the United States are becoming commonplace. There have been significant fires all throughout the West and British Columbia in the last month with individual homes and even neighborhoods being lost to fire. In California, the wildland fire season is now year-round. Typically, the wildland fire season here in Washington begins in June and heats up in the months of July, August and September.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Gov Tech

Firefighting is not an easy job, and today we experienced some of the intense training Pasco Fire Department leaders put their new recruits through. A group of three firefighters burst into a burning building, but the smoke was just a simulation, and the victims just dummies. All this was part of a ten-week training academy to prepare new recruits for real fires.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2017 5:58:31 PM - SOURCE: KEPR-TV CBS 19