PHOTOS: It was described as the “largest and most elegantly appointed boarding house in the Northwest.” Butte’s Hale House, constructed in 1895, offered nearly 200 rooms “for the busy toilers of the great copper camp.” The Anaconda Standard newspaper described it as modern in every way, constructed of brick and stone, with “everything to make it complete in drainage, light, heat and ventilation.
- PUB DATE: 5/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Missoula Current

Under the direction of Mayor Rick Blangiardi, the Honolulu Hale will light up this week to commemorate National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) week. The Hale will be lit up in the colors of the city’s ambulances (orange, blue, and white) from sunset on Sunday May, 15 to sunrise on Saturday, May, 21.
- PUB DATE: 5/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KITV ABC 4 Honolulu

Firefighters are thanking a local caller who helped crews save two people in downtown Seattle Sunday morning. The Seattle Fire Department received a call at 10:28 a.m. reporting two people on a fifth-floor balcony waving for help to the caller as smoke filled their apartment window. The caller drove to the building to give the fire department an accurate location — 700 block of 7th Ave — and told a resident of the high-rise building to pull the fire alarm.
- PUB DATE: 5/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

A big Pacific Northwest timber company is teaming up with a nonprofit that helps with firefighters' mental health and suicide risk. With financial help from timber giant Weyerhaeuser, the Firefighter Behavioral Health Alliance (FBHA) has set up an online behavioral health resource especially for wildland firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 5/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KEZI-TV ABC 9 Eugene

Saturday around 2a.m. the Kennewick Fire Department (KFD) responded to a garden shed fire at 4200 block of Clearwater Avenue. Fortunately, no firefighters or residents were injured and no buildings nearby were damaged. According to KFD, a citizen who smelled smoke and saw flames from half a mile away called the fire in.
- PUB DATE: 5/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNDO-TV NBC 23 Yakima