Most of the early day buildings around the Enid downtown square in 1901 were built of southern hard pine. A few painted walls and some brick walls were beginning to be used. Wooden sidewalks were the standard. According to the Enid Fire Department history, the Enid City Council on Dec. 28, 1893, approved the appointment of a fire warden and assistant fire marshal, plus each business around the downtown square would be required to keep a barrel of water for protection against fire and six fire hand grenades (glass spheres containing carbon tetrachloride) to help put out any fires that occurred.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Enid News & Eagle

The Coeur d’Alene Fire Department wants you to help it name some of its newest team members. Fire Rescue crews just got their two new water rescue training dummies and they need to be named. One of the dummies is child-sized and the other is adult-sized. The Coeur d’Alene Fire Department posted pictures of the new dummies to its Facebook page and asked for help picking out names.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

VIDEO: Brownsburg firefighter Jason Stumm, in the industry for more than 20 years, says each day is unpredictable. “There are days, weeks and months sometimes that you go on runs and it’s not really stressful. It’s a daily event, but then you have that one run in the middle of the month that you remember.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTHR-TV NBC 13 Indianapolis

The omicron subvariant BA.2 is continuing to gain ground in the U.S., according to Covid-19 tests sequenced over the last two weeks. Helix, a San Diego-based genomics firm, has been watching the BA.2 variant since it first popped up in the U.S. in early January. Although it was initially slow to take hold, Helix now estimates that 50% to 70% of all Covid cases nationwide are BA.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bloomberg

The Seattle Police Department (SPD) arrested a 38-year-old Federal Way man who officers say started several fires in a Belltown apartment building on March 10. Officers said the suspect is a former tenant of the apartment complex. The Seattle Fire Department responded to the fire, located at the Bell Tower in the 2200 block of Frist Avenue, around 2:45 a.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle