VIDEO: The Chico Fire Department (CFD) is utilizing a new alert system they say can cut down their response time when called to emergency situations. The new system, called MACH Alert, will make the dispatching process consistent across all fire stations in Chico, and create a more rapid response to calls.
- PUB DATE: 1/18/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRCR-TV ABC 7 Redding

VIDEO: Butte firefighters, police, and members of a local history group braved the bitter cold on Monday afternoon to remember the lives lost in a devastating explosion and fire that took place almost 130 years ago in the Mining City’s warehouse district. The Kenyon-Connell Warehouse fire of 1895 took the lives of all but two Butte firefighters when illegal dynamite exploded.
- PUB DATE: 1/18/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXLF-TV CBS 4 Butte

PHOTO: One person was taken to the hospital after a fire engulfed a home in Maple Valley Tuesday morning. According to Puget Sound Fire, crews began receiving calls about a garage fire near a home on 218 Avenue SE around 7 a.m. While the fire was initially reported in the garage, it quickly spread to a two-story home.
- PUB DATE: 1/18/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13 Seattle

Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue recently recognized three people for their assistance with administering CPR in emergency settings, including two daughters of firefighters. The Civilian Action Award was presented at the Jan. 8 fire commissioners meeting to Olivia Wildes, daughter of CKFR paramedic Jeff Wildes, and Ella Dick, daughter of CKFR apparatus operator Amanda Rohr.
- PUB DATE: 1/18/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kitsap Daily News

A 92-year-old Moses Lake man is dead after a fire on the night of Tuesday, Jan 16. Firefighters responded to the house fire at 8725 Neppel Rd., about six miles north of Moses Lake, around 11:45 p.m. About half the home was on fire when crews arrived, according to the Grant County Sheriff's Office. When the fire was put out, the body of Nathan Lee Jones was found inside.
- PUB DATE: 1/17/2024 7:11:00 PM - SOURCE: KNDU-TV NBC 25 Richland