Firefighters deal with a lot of 911 calls that aren't exactly emergencies, and now the city is unveiling its solution to the problem: a six-month pilot program called Spokane Ride to Care. City officials created the idea for this program nearly three years ago. 10,000 times a year, the Spokane Fire Department heads to an emergency call, and doesn't find an emergency on the other end.
- PUB DATE: 3/13/2017 7:48:07 PM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4

There’s a reason why 11-year-old Mason Allan has a face filled with excitement. Mason’s mother sent out 12 invitations but the friends he invited did not show up. “The night before, I was a mess because he was having a break down. Nobody is coming. I should just cancel,” said Mason’s mother Danielle Thomas.
- PUB DATE: 3/13/2017 7:46:45 PM - SOURCE: KAYU-TV MyFox Spokane

"I remember him every day." Every day, the Wildman family remembers their son...their brother. James Wildman was taken too soon. Wildman and 25-year-old Dylan Bolt, both from Prosser, were killed January 7th near Naches after a day of skiing when Wildman lost control of his truck and the pickup landed in the Naches River.
- PUB DATE: 3/13/2017 5:41:04 PM - SOURCE: NBCRightNow.com

A log cabin-style home was severely damaged in a fire Sunday night. Firefighters were called to the 13000 block of 244th Ave. SE just before midnight and found flames coming from the two-story home atop a steep hill, according to Capt. Steve Westlake with Eastide Fire & Rescue. There were no hydrants in the area, but firefighters were able to get water to the scene, Westlake said.
- PUB DATE: 3/13/2017 8:00:09 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

You’ve seen it in the movies and on TV: Someone hurt in a car wreck is strapped to a rigid backboard and rushed to the hospital by ambulance or aboard a rescue helicopter. That’s how firefighters, paramedics and others have approached patients with suspected spinal injury since the nation’s modern fire-based EMS system began some 50 years ago.
- PUB DATE: 3/13/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald