Pointing to long-running structural and health concerns, Mount Vernon Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard announced on Friday that the Oak Street Firehouse will be temporarily relocated. The mayor said that operations at the Station 4 Firehouse will be moved until the city can make long overdue repairs. The firefighters and equipment will be immediately relocated to the Station 3 Firehouse until the city can establish a temporary Station 4 located near the Mount Vernon West MetroNorth train station.
- PUB DATE: 8/9/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mount Vernon Patch

On a recent afternoon, Antoine Mosley was panhandling on Cerrillos Road when the city’s Alternative Response Unit arrived. The unit includes a caseworker, a paramedic and a police officer who respond to low-threat 911 calls usually related to behavioral health issues. The unit members are trained in de-escalation techniques and often connect people in crisis with mental health and housing services.
- PUB DATE: 8/9/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Santa Fe New Mexican

PHOTO: The partnership between Oklahoma State University and the City of Stillwater has always been crucial to the success of each institution as a whole. Stillwater and OSU sprang up almost simultaneously over 125 years ago, and their connection remains strong to this day, with their latest partnership culminating in an OSU-branded ladder truck for the Stillwater Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 8/9/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Oklahoma State University

VIDEO: Two homes were destroyed and 12 students were displaced from a half-acre wildfire that started in Pullman. A tree caught fire on a property on Maple Street, quickly spreading to the house and engulfing it in flames. Winds picked up embers from the fire and carried them a block away to Howard Street, igniting a fire on another house’s cedar shingles and starting a brush fire on a nearby hillside.
- PUB DATE: 8/9/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One says that “post-traumatic stress injury” led to the sudden death of one of its firefighters, 47-year-old Eliza Hoover. In a release Thursday, the district said it was important to “pause to reflect on the importance of mental health awareness within the industry of first responders” and that “acknowledging the post-traumatic stress injury (PTSI) that led to FF/PM Hoover’s death is the first step.
- PUB DATE: 8/9/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The News Tribune