Deana Dallas woke up to the sound of crackling and then a boom shook her Kennewick apartment. “I jumped out of bed and smelled something funny,” she told Herald on Monday. “All I saw were flames on the balcony outside the sliding back door.” Dallas was one of about 10 people living in the four-plex on the 4200 block of West Albany who lost their homes when a blaze broke out at 3:40 a.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tri-City Herald - Metered Site

An ambulance was stolen Sunday in Goodyear.

Lisa Berry, a spokesperson with the Goodyear Police Department, said the Buckeye Valley Ambulance was stolen from an Abrazo hospital Sunday night, FOX 10 reports.

Police said the suspect ran a red light and crashed the ambulance into a car a block away. Neither the driver of the stolen ambulance nor the car were hurt.

The suspect was taken into custody and has not been identified.

The Florence Fire Department recently announced that its Station 6 is in full service.

FA reported late last year that the $5.5 million, two-station project was nearly complete. The plan saw Station 4 on Jody Road finish first and now Station 6 is ready for action.

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Waukesha police and fire departments are investigating a malfunction in their 911 dispatch software that left people waiting for firefighters to arrive at a fatal apartment fire until dispatchers manually overrode the software and called out firefighters.

Two people, a husband and wife, died in the fire in the early Tuesday morning. Callers reported the fire at Lambeth Road and Oakdale Drive to dispatchers at 1:25 a.m., WISN reports. But police say the computer aided dispatch program malfunctioned and did not automatically notify the fire department of the call as its designed to do.

Instead, police officers responded to the call alone. Once on the scene, police officers initiated calls to the dispatch center, which discovered the fire department had not been called out. At 1:30 a.m. dispatchers manually initiated the call to the fire department.

Two people, Kevin and Kim McQuade, died from injuries sustained in the fire. Others were injured jumping from the building.

ProPhoenix Corp., which produces the software, has not issued a statement on this story as of Thursday morning. We will update when it does.

An Q69 MTA bus collided with an FDNY apparatus in Queens early Monday morning, reports pix11.com.

The accident, which occurred near 21st Street and 37th Avenue around 12:30 a.m., left two passengers and the bus driver with non-life-threatening injuries, the report says.

An investigation into the crash is under way.