Washington residents will have a new tool to help keep them safe when an earthquake strikes on Tuesday when the ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System goes live. Once launched, ShakeAlert will be able to send residents an alert on their mobile phones, providing valuable seconds of warning to take cover before the shaking from an earthquake reaches their location.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KATU-TV ABC 2 Portland

When was the last time you checked the batteries in your smoke alarms? Firefighters say you have 2 to 3 minutes to escape a fire in your home and make it out alive. It's not known if a triplex that caught fire Friday had working smoke alarms but no one was injured after escaping the early morning fire.
- PUB DATE: 5/1/2021 10:46:40 AM - SOURCE: KATS-FM 94.5

Evacuations have been lifted after a natural gas leak Saturday morning in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle. The reported gas leak was near Republican St. & Westlake Ave. N. in the South Lake Union area. Crews evacuated the area from Mercer St. S to Thomas St and 9th Ave N east to Fairview Ave N for a short time.
- PUB DATE: 5/1/2021 10:38:18 AM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13 Seattle

This year, firefighters have already had to put out over 250 wildfires in the state. These fires devastate communities and cost the state millions of dollars in rebuilding costs. Now, state leaders are focusing on prevention versus reaction with the Wildfire Ready Neighbors program in Spokane County.
- PUB DATE: 4/30/2021 5:27:11 PM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

On the heels of an agreement from City Council to buy the nearby lot at 708 Pine St., the Lumberton (NC) Fire Department now has room to expand its Central Station, reports news.Yahoo.com.

First Baptist Church sold the lot—a little more than a half-acre in size, located diagonally across Cedar Street from Central Station—for $100,000.

Officials said the site requires less demolition than the other potential sites would have required, and that fire department vehicles will be able to enter the site using multiple entrances.