The new Garfield County Fire District chief is embracing the small town he now calls home and settling into his role after moving here from Massachusetts in August. James Cleveland, 48, said his first month in the idyllic community is kind of a blur because he and his family contracted the coronavirus somewhere along their way to Pomeroy from the other side of the country.
- PUB DATE: 12/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Lewiston Tribune - Metered Site

A sweep of Cal Anderson Park in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood was met with resistance Wednesday morning. People living in the park were asked to remove their belongings by 7:30 a.m. Wednesday. However, protesters resisted, barricading a portion of the park and intentionally setting fire to a tent, according to Seattle Parks.
- PUB DATE: 12/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle

A home in Salmon Creek went up in flames early Wednesday morning, but fortunately no one was injured. According to Clark County Fire District 6, firefighters from its district and Vancouver Fire responded at 2:40 a.m. to a house on fire near the intersection of Northwest 142nd Way and Northwest 29th Avenue.
- PUB DATE: 12/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPTV FOX 12 Portland

A structure fire is burning on the 1100 block of East Boone in Spokane Valley. East Boone is blocked by first responders Firefighters say a 2 story duplex caught fire. The fire started on the back porch and then moved inside and caught the home one fire. Four adults, one child and one cat lived in the home.
- PUB DATE: 12/15/2020 6:54:16 PM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6 Spokane

An elaborate ornamental frame encloses a dramatic scene of everyday life in mid eighteenth-century New York: in the image we witness a volunteer company laboring to extinguish a fire at an unidentified location. Without access to the sorts of hydrants that are a common feature of today’s cityscape, a line of men passes buckets of water from hand to hand, a team effort that is memorialized both in the name of the company (Hand-in-Hand Fire Company) and in the emblem of a disembodied handshake that graces the top of the frame.
- PUB DATE: 12/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Gothamist