As Corpus Christi Fire Department cadets were recognized by friends, family and city officials Thursday evening at Del Mar College, one word kept coming up: pioneer. The 22 future firefighters were celebrated for their completion of an innovative paramedic training program. The cadets were the first people in the country to attempt a simultaneous, expedited emergency medical technician and paramedic training course.
- PUB DATE: 5/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Caller Times - Metered Site

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