VIDEO: Some University of Maryland students were in the spotlight Wednesday after winning more than $150,000 in a national drone competition. What the team from the university's Autonomous Micro Air Vehicle Team has achieved is especially important to first responders, who turned out in big numbers Wednesday to take a look at the specialized drone students at the University’s Clark School of Engineering created.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WUSA-TV CBS 9 Washington, D.C.

VIDEO: From the first bucket brigades of New Amsterdam in the 1620s to state-of-the-art firefighting now, the Fire Museum of New York City tells the story of fire protection, fire prevention, and firefighting in New York, over the years. The telling of a vital chapter of that story just got more in-depth with the museum’s acquisition of new materials related to 9/11.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPIX-TV CW 11 New York City

VIDEO: Coordinating wildfire resources is no easy task, but dispatchers at the Northeast Washington Interagency Communications Center (NEWICC) in Colville have it down to a science. "There's a lot of moving parts, and we're a part of that team," said Jill Jones, who has managed NEWICC since 2015. "It's really rewarding.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6 Spokane

PHOTOS: Firefighters were mopping up hotspots after a large fire at an auto shop of some kind in Tacoma Wednesday afternoon. The fire was reported in the 4800 block of South Adams Street around 2 p.m. Firefighters arrived to find heavy fire conditions in the building and took a defensive strategy, according to Tacoma fire officials.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

Across Lewis County, more than 30 fires of various sizes have been reported over the last week. As of Wednesday, rain early in the week left five in the county that are being actively monitored and at least 23 that have been reported and named. Many are thought to have been caused by lightning strikes igniting already dry underbrush late last week.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2023 11:58:47 PM - SOURCE: Centralia Chronicle