Research over the past few years is showing a link between fighting fires and cancer. Firefighters risk their lives onsite all the time when they enter burning buildings. However, the danger does not necessarily leave them once they make it out. "We're finding all the stuff out in the last ten years with studies of offgassing and benzene and all the things that are carcinogens that are offgassing off of fire clothing," said Fire Chief Mike Harris, he works for Benton County Fire District #3.
- PUB DATE: 2/4/2016 5:58:47 PM - SOURCE: KVEW-TV ABC 42 Kennewick

Snow coated the troubled town of Twisp long before the land could heal. On Thursday, a powder mask covered the scorched land, blackened by the wildfires that torched Central Washington last summer. But in the frigid white of winter, some see through the snow. "It's hard. It's really hard," Jordy Lewis said.
- PUB DATE: 2/4/2016 5:36:46 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

Snow coated the troubled town of Twisp long before the land could heal. On Thursday, a powder mask covered the scorched land, blackened by the wildfires that torched Central Washington last summer. But in the frigid white of winter, some see through the snow. "It's hard. It's really hard," Jordy Lewis said.
- PUB DATE: 2/4/2016 5:36:46 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

Firefighters and school counselors are learning how to deal with youth that have lit or talked about lighting fires. Yakima firefighters hosted guest speaker Sedric Ketchum from the U.S. Fire Administration Thursday morning -- Ketchum showed the group how to properly interview youth following acts of arson.
- PUB DATE: 2/4/2016 1:59:40 PM - SOURCE: KVEW-TV ABC 42 Kennewick

Firefighters and school counselors are learning how to deal with youth that have lit or talked about lighting fires. Yakima firefighters hosted guest speaker Sedric Ketchum from the U.S. Fire Administration Thursday morning -- Ketchum showed the group how to properly interview youth following acts of arson.
- PUB DATE: 2/4/2016 1:59:40 PM - SOURCE: KVEW-TV ABC 42 Kennewick