At least 15 people were displaced when a fire destroyed a Union Gap motel Tuesday morning. Yakima firefighters were called to the Sunset Motel, 3401 Main Street, around 9:50 a.m., and found an attic fire that was affecting all seven units in one of the motel’s three main buildings, according to a Yakima Fire Department news release.
- PUB DATE: 6/29/2021 6:02:02 PM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic

A 1920 Ahren-Fox fire truck is one of the prized possessions of the Rochester Fire Department, reports KTTC.

The fire truck’s water tank pumped 750 gallons a minute. There are only a handful of people who are able to drive the 100-year old truck due to its complicated throttle and other controls.

The team has also been working to raise funds to restore the 1889 Clock and Bell Tower.

The Colorado Springs Fire Department is preparing to build new fire stations in the years to come, reports KKTV 11 News.

Crews could break ground on a $5 million fire station and a radio shop in the coming months next to the department’s headquarters.

Three young girls are being accused of breaking into, and then vandalizing, a Burlington fire station, reports ABC 12 News.

The fire department reports that coffee, sugar packets, sugar, stirrers and more strewn all over the floor in a meeting room. The fire department says professional cleaners attended to the mess.

Their parents are reportedly being cooperative with investigators

Drivers making their way along Highway 240 past Columbia Park Monday afternoon could see the plume of dark black smoke, and even the flames shooting from the windows of this house across the river in Pasco. Pasco Police say around 3:30PM fire crews responded to this structure fire near the corner of Sylvester and Road 56, and found the fire shooting our of upstairs windows.
- PUB DATE: 6/29/2021 1:46:35 PM - SOURCE: KXRX-FM 97.1 Pasco