VIDEO: The team efforts at a harrowing 2021 fire in a Vernon tenement are being featured on a national documentary. The fire took place at 80-82 Union Street last March. A raging inferno trapped residents on the third floor and the building was engulfed in smoke. A rescue team that sprang to action spared no title — in addition to firefighters and police officers, a registered nurse from nearby Rockville General Hospital, an Air National Guard sergeant who lived next door and Vernon's town administrator and emergency management director sprang into action and the two people trapped on the third floor were rescued.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Vernon Patch

A person was arrested on Saturday after pouring gasoline and trying to light an ATM on fire in a Seattle Target, according to Seattle police. Around 9:32 a.m. on Jan. 8, a person walked into the lobby of a Target in the 1400 block of Second Avenue and attempted to pour and light gasoline on an ATM. After security confronted them, the person fled around the corner to another building and poured more gasoline in the front of another lobby.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle

A landslide took a family home and the lives of two dogs who were inside it. “I thought I was going to die, and just praying to God,” said James Fritts. James Fritts and his wife Didi were in the kitchen Friday afternoon when a landslide knocked their home off its foundation. “We heard a big crack and huge roar and the whole house just exploded around us,” said Fritts.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

A man is facing charges, including DUI and possibly vehicular homicide, in connection with a weekend crash that sent the vehicle he was driving into the Snoqualmie River with a mother, her daughter and her 8-year-old son inside. After searching for nearly two days, rescuers found the truck that crashed into the water early Sunday morning but the bodies of the woman and her son have not yet been recovered as of Monday night.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

Council officials recently approved the Metchosin (B.C., Canada) Fire Department spending C$100,000 to buy a new truck to replace the broken-down current Battallion 1 truck, reports vancouverislandfreedaily.com.

An accident caused damage to the apparatus, but repairs wouldn’t make financial sense—and it was scheduled to be replaced in 2022 regardless, the report says.

The department has been using other municipal vehicles, such as the building inspector’s truck, but they’re not up to standards.

Council reassigned capital funding from the 2021 budget to allow the fire department to start looking for a suitable vehicle immediately, the report says. Given the approved price range, the department has been eyeing a Ford F-150.

Council’s decision comes with an amendment saying that $80,000 will be spent on the initial cost with the rest going toward equipment.

Department staff aims to find the best deal for John Q. Taxpayer with regards to insurance claims on the old apparatus.