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Posted: May 25, 2016

Big Bend Community College air rescue facility designed to test firefighters

By their very nature emergencies don’t follow the routine script. Duane Kling, Moses Lake, an instructor for the Air Rescue Firefighter program at Big Bend Community College, used the example of the door on a large commercial aircraft. Those things are meticulously engineered, to the point where a 120-pound flight attendant can open an 800-pound door, he said.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2016 2:46:11 AM - SOURCE: Columbia Basin Herald
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Posted: May 25, 2016

Burn pile catches Custer farm shack on fire during demolition

A dilapidated farm building in the Custer area caught fire from a nearby burn pile as it was being demolished Tuesday afternoon, May 24. North Whatcom and Lynden firefighters responded to the fire at 2424 Zell Road just before 3 p.m., said Assistant Fire Chief Robert Spinner. When firefighters arrived, the 20-by-50-foot storage shack was engulfed.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2016 2:32:04 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald
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Posted: May 25, 2016

Burn pile catches Custer farm shack on fire during demolition

A dilapidated farm building in the Custer area caught fire from a nearby burn pile as it was being demolished Tuesday afternoon, May 24. North Whatcom and Lynden firefighters responded to the fire at 2424 Zell Road just before 3 p.m., said Assistant Fire Chief Robert Spinner. When firefighters arrived, the 20-by-50-foot storage shack was engulfed.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2016 2:32:04 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald
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Posted: May 25, 2016

No injuries as fire tears through Bainbridge Island home

Nobody was injured in a Tuesday night house fire on Bainbridge Island, but firefighters say the structure was completely destroyed. Someone called 911 at about 7 p.m. to report smoke and flames coming from a home on Peterson Hill Road. The house was fully engulfed in flames by the time firefighters arrived a short time later, according to Bainbridge Island Assistant Fire Chief Luke Carpenter.
- PUB DATE: 5/24/2016 10:05:51 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000
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Posted: May 25, 2016

No injuries as fire tears through Bainbridge Island home

Nobody was injured in a Tuesday night house fire on Bainbridge Island, but firefighters say the structure was completely destroyed. Someone called 911 at about 7 p.m. to report smoke and flames coming from a home on Peterson Hill Road. The house was fully engulfed in flames by the time firefighters arrived a short time later, according to Bainbridge Island Assistant Fire Chief Luke Carpenter.
- PUB DATE: 5/24/2016 10:05:51 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000
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