A Vesta (MN) Fire and Rescue apparatus was hit by a semi-truck Wednesday night while crews were responding to a crash on Highway 19.

The company was providing traffic control at the accident scene when the semi ran into its pickup at 6:30 p.m.

A firefighter was inside the pickup at the time of the collision, but luckily there were no major injuries. The incident is currently under investigation.

Officials say there were no injuries in the original crash to which the department was responding.

Firefighters from across Yakima County rushed to a home where a large porch fire was ignited by a heat lamp that was meant to warm up puppies who were outside in the cold. According to an alert from Yakima County Fire Protection District #5, fire crews were alerted to the blaze around 5:32 a.m. on Friday morning.
- PUB DATE: 1/29/2022 10:40:22 PM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

Tacoma Firefighters say two people were injured and more than a dozen were displaced after a fire broke out at an apartment building early Saturday morning. Crews responded to an apartment in the 1200 block of N. Pearl St around 3 a.m. Saturday. Investigators say the fire started as a cooking fire in a first-floor unit and quickly spread to the second and third floors.
- PUB DATE: 1/29/2022 4:35:56 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

From The 4K Guy comes this video of a crew trying to contain a fire at a remote ski chalet while they wait for firefighters to arrive from a distant town.

The fire broke out on January, 25 at the Valinouet winter ski resort near St-David-de-Falardeau in Quebec. News reports said the fire most likely started in a garage.

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Tacoma Police Department, alongside ATF special agents, has identified and arrested a suspect in a string of arsons that began in the evening of Jan. 25 through early morning the next day. The suspect, a 42-year-old female, was arrested without incident at a Tacoma residence on Friday afternoon. The arsons spanned 8 locations from north to central Tacoma between 7 p.
- PUB DATE: 1/29/2022 6:21:59 AM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6 Spokane