Yakima firefighters responded to three fires Tuesday night, continuing a recent string of nearly simultaneous calls that have at times stretched resources thin. The two grass fires and a shed fire were reported over more than three hours starting at about 7:20 p.m., according to a news release from the Yakima Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2015 7:42:47 AM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic

With more multi-story buildings going up on the Long Beach Peninsula, a ladder truck recently acquired by Pacific County Fire District 1 through a federal military surplus program is an important addition to the department’s fleet of firefighting engines and trucks, Fire Chief Jacob Brundage says. For the past decade, the department has relied on the Long Beach Fire Department’s ladder truck.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: daily astorian

VIDEO: A Lacey coffee stand was set on fire last week and the arsonist was caught on camera as he set the fire. The arson occurred on Wednesday at about 4 a.m. at the Bongiorno Brew Espresso stand at 4914 Lacey Blvd. SE. The man rode up on a bicycle, shattered a window, lit a prepared incendiary device and tossed it inside, according to police.
- PUB DATE: 7/28/2015 11:09:41 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7

A puppy named Bonita is credited with alerting a Spokane Valley family to a fire early Monday that heavily damaged their apartment complex. Bonita started barking around 9 a.m. when a row of garages at the Broadway Square Apartments, 11910 E. Broadway Ave., caught fire. The racket alerted the dog’s owner, Tara Peters, who was at home with her 4-year-old son, Anthony.
- PUB DATE: 7/28/2015 12:42:38 AM - SOURCE: Spokane Spokesman-Review

As Yogi Berra would say, it was déjà vu all over again for Yakima firefighters. For the second time in less than a week, firefighters were simultaneously contending with a brush fire and two house fires Sunday night that pushed the city’s firefighters to the limit. Last Wednesday, close to 100 firefighters were kept busy at simultaneous fires that destroyed a home on South 25th Avenue, damaged another house on Conestoga Boulevard and scorched about 5 acres off Pecks Canyon that threatened several homes.
- PUB DATE: 7/28/2015 12:39:44 AM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic