When Jeff Bowen was growing up in Southern California he would walk home from school by a fire station. One day, after the 6-year-old did not come home, his mother, Laurel Bowen, said she went looking for him at the station where she knew some of the firefighters. A captain pointed her inside. "He said, 'You know he stops every day to talk to us.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Citizen Times - Metered Site

Last week at a media conference Vice Admiral Roy Kitchener, the commander of US Navy warships, outlined the actions that have been taken since the Bonhomme Richard caught fire in San Diego last year… and he has completely missed the point. “We found that in some cases maybe we weren’t doing as well as we should have,” Kitchener told US Naval Institute editor Sam LaGrone.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: gCaptain

A year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, the world looks a lot different than it used to. And so does the coronavirus itself. As it’s infected hundreds of millions of people around the globe, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been in a state of constant change, making small tweaks to its genetic code as it goes along.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Spectrum News 1

In the past two decades, call volume for the Moses Lake Fire Department has increased an average of 2.5% a year, said MLFD Chief Brett Bastian. While the Moses Lake Police Department has seen more fluctuation in that time, this year it is up by about 6.5% from where it was last year, with around 600 additional calls.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Columbia Basin Herald - Metered Site

2021 has already been an unprecedented year for fires. According to the Department of Natural Resources there have been more than double the amount of fires than Washington's ten-year average. "Last year we know that the west coast was hit hard,” DNR Commissioner Hilary Franz said. “Labor Day's firestorms unprecedented 620,000 acres burned in 72-hours right here in Washington state, we lost a little boy’s life, we had an entire town burn down.
- PUB DATE: 7/28/2021 8:41:54 PM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6 Spokane