The Vancouver Fire Marshal’s Office was awarded a $142,753 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to promote fire safety. The funds from the Fire Prevention and Safety grant will go toward the agency’s Project HomeSafe campaign, which aims at reducing the frequency and severity of residential fires through education and outreach.
- PUB DATE: 9/29/2016 11:08:31 AM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian

Two men are hospitalized in serious condition Thursday after their truck rolled over an embankment and nearly split in half. Police and medics responded to the scene, near North Gold Street and Ham Hill Road in Centralia, just before 10:30 p.m. after receiving reports of a rollover crash. Responders found that a pickup had rolled more than 20 feet down an embankment.
- PUB DATE: 9/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO News

Some of Yakima's new firefighters are training on life-saving techniques. They're practicing how to rescue people from a burning building at their training facility. Part of the training involves getting a person out of a window from three stories up. They also practiced going into a smoke-filled room and rescuing a firefighter in need.
- PUB DATE: 9/28/2016 8:22:14 PM - SOURCE: KIMA-TV CBS 29 Yakima

A man risked his life to save others when the flames were raging at a West Seattle apartment complex Tuesday. Smoke rising from the fire could be seen for miles as crews fought the multiple-alarm fire at the Lam Bow Apartments on Delridge Way. A building maintenance worker is being credited for saving lives, along with the firefighters who were still at the scene Wednesday morning.
- PUB DATE: 9/28/2016 9:48:19 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7

An early morning fire kept Pasco Police and Fire crews busy throughout most of Wednesday morning. The fire, being investigated as suspicious, happened around 3:30 a.m. in the 1000 block of South 4th Street. When firefighters got on scene they found a 10-by-10 shed completely engulfed in flames. Authorities say a man had been living in the shed, but say no one was in the out-building at the time of the fire.
- PUB DATE: 9/28/2016 9:39:22 AM - SOURCE: NBCRightNow.com