The Walla Walla Fire Department has received money to help deliver the Safety Always Matters fire-safety program to students. Usually, firefighters get to visit schools to speak to students and have them participate in the program hands-on. The COVID-19 pandemic has made things different, not only for students but for firefighters as well.
- PUB DATE: 12/14/2020 2:51:39 PM - SOURCE: KEYW-FM 98.3

East Wenatchee police are investigating a Sunday morning fire, believed to be arson, that left a home damaged. Douglas County Fire District 2 responded just before 9 a.m. Sunday to a fire on the porch of a home in the 900 block of Tedford Street. A driver noticed the fire and was able to alert the resident in the home, according to police.
- PUB DATE: 12/14/2020 9:46:58 AM - SOURCE: iFiberOne

A woman was hospitalized Sunday evening when a fire broke out in her kitchen in South Seattle. Firefighters were called to the 5200 block of Rainier Avenue South just before 8 p.m. for a report of a fire in a fourth-floor unit, according to Seattle Fire officials. They found a woman had been injured and rushed her to Harborview Medical Center where she was listed in critical condition, officials said.
- PUB DATE: 12/14/2020 7:54:39 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

VIDEO: As others were desperately trying to get to safety, a local man is being honored for taking action to make sure they could on Friday. And his actions may be why a bad situation didn't become much worse. Officials said William Cox was among the first on the scene when a fire broke out at Fairington Village Apartments in Stonecrest on Friday afternoon.
- PUB DATE: 12/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIA-TV NBC 11 Atlanta

Five emergency responders will be the first members of the D.C. Fire and EMS Department to get the COVID-19 vaccine this coming week, a sign that “the light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter,” Mayor Muriel Bowser said in a news release. The group, designated "The First Five," are FEMS Chief John Donnelly, the department’s Medical Director Dr.
- PUB DATE: 12/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRC-TV NBC 4 Washington DC