Paul Wertheimer has spent four decades trying to help prevent deadly crowd surges since a disaster at a concert by The Who changed his life. Eleven young people, ages 15 to 27, died in a crowd crush at Cincinnati’s Riverfront Coliseum in 1979. “There were piles of shoes and clothing,” said Wertheimer, who responded to the scene as the city’s public information officer.
- PUB DATE: 11/12/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISC-TV CBS 3 Madison

An explosion at a homeless encampment under the West Seattle Bridge ignited a large fire late Wednesday night. Our KOMO News crew was at the scene when an explosion near the Chelan Cafe started the fire. Authorities said it appears no one was at the encampment at the time of the explosion. Seattle Fire says the explosion was caused by four to five propane tanks, and they are working to determine what caused the tanks to explode.
- PUB DATE: 11/12/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

Tacoma firefighters were on the scene of a huge house fire early Thursday morning. The fire started at a two-story abandoned home an adjacent RV in the 500 block of 56th Ave. E. There were also down wires at the front corner of the house. The fire marshal arrived on the scene and will investigate the cause of the fire in this abandoned house.
- PUB DATE: 11/12/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

Intense downpours led to a life-and-death situation for two children Thursday night before police arrived to save the youngsters and make a dramatic rescue. The boys, one of who is 11 years old and the other who is 10, were playing in a storm pond near the Kitts Corner apartment complex on S 336th Street when they got sucked into a drain pipe and dragged off by the current.
- PUB DATE: 11/12/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

The Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office says every avenue is being explored as the search for missing Seattle Deputy Fire Chief Jay Schreckengost enters day nine. More than 100 people continue in the search in the hills above Cliffdell in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Search teams include state search and rescue planners, K9 teams, drones, mountain rescue, ATV searchers and ground teams, according to the sheriff’s office.
- PUB DATE: 11/11/2021 1:33:00 PM - SOURCE: iFiberOne