PHOTOS: A restaurant fire has firefighters up and working early Friday in Redmond. The one-alarm fire started in the 16100 block of NE 87th St. in Redmond around 4:30 a.m. Firefighters tell KOMO News the fire started in a restaurant at a strip mall with five other businesses. Two businesses are completely destroyed and three others are being assessed.
- PUB DATE: 1/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

Clark County Fire District 6 announced the death of a longtime firefighter and paramedic, Joe Killian, Thursday. Killian served the district for 26 years before retiring 4 years ago. Shortly after his retirement, Killian was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer that is common among firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 1/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPTV-TV FOX 12 Portland

A report from the Department of Commerce estimates that Washington and Idaho lost between $1.35 and $2.6 billion in 2021 because of weather disasters. In the Pacific Northwest as a whole (including Oregon) that number reaches at least $3 billion. Of the four costliest weather disasters in 2021, the Northwest was impacted by two of them.
- PUB DATE: 1/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

VIDEO: A teenager from Lewis County, Wash. was given an award for bravery, after she got her 3-year-old and 4-year-old sisters and the family dog out of their burning home, braving the flames to save lives. Haylee Laur, 15, made the heroic rescues Dec. 27. Their home in Winlock was destroyed, but Laur saved multiple lives that day.
- PUB DATE: 1/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KREM-TV CBS 2 Spokane

The Minden Hills (Ontario, Canada) Fire Department recently took delivery of a new Ford F550, reports mindentimes.ca.

Smaller in size compared to other apparatus, the Pierce-built initial attack apparatus has a 5,000-liter-per-minute pump, 750-liter water tank, 60-liter foam tank, and myriad other customizable features.

Over two years ago council approved the purchase of a new fire apparatus to replace the fleet’s 1995 International. It took 16 months to build, which saw very few non-COVID delays, the report says.

The new unit now gives the department three apparatus with which to respond to calls.