You don’t know what you don’t know. Hornell Fire Chief Frank Brzozowski didn’t know what to expect a year ago today, when the department was toned out for a fire on Preston Avenue in the city. Each call is treated as a structure fire until proven otherwise, though most don’t keep firefighters busy for long — a small oven fire that tripped a smoke detector, perhaps, or maybe leaves burning in a backyard.
- PUB DATE: 11/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Evening Tribune - Metered Site

A group of local firefighters pivoted when the pandemic hit to help in the fight against COVID-19. Their Lake County business is creating custom testing and vaccination trailers for counties across the country. Adapt and overcome: that is a motto firefighters say they live by. When COVID spiked in the U.
- PUB DATE: 11/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLS-TV ABC 7 Chicago

Clark County Fire District 3 (FD3) has made a handful of hires to help staff an increase in fire crews, keeping one of its stations occupied 24 hours a day, seven days a week and increasing the crew count at the district’s Battle Ground station. The district announced Wednesday, Nov. 11, that it had hired four full-time as well as three volunteer resident firefighters who will be responding to calls by the end of 2020.
- PUB DATE: 11/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: TheReflector.com

A Sunriver, Oregon man was killed while kayaking Sunday in Canyon Creek where it flows into the Lewis River. On Sunday (Nov. 15) at 5:09 p.m., north Clark and Cowlitz County emergency personnel were alerted to an incident involving a kayaker on Canyon Creek. The 9-1-1 caller reported he and two friends had been white water kayaking in Canyon Creek where it flows into the Lewis River near the Yale/Merwin Hydro dam.
- PUB DATE: 11/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Clark County Today

By any measure, this year’s wildfire season was a scorcher. From weeks of oppressive smoke to explosive blazes that destroyed an entire town and culminated in the death of an infant, this year’s catastrophic fires affected nearly everyone in Washington. The state Department of Natural Resources is Washington’s largest firefighting organization, with about 600 year-round and seasonal employees working to control fires on more than 13 million acres of forestland across the state.
- PUB DATE: 11/16/2020 2:41:12 PM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian - Metered Site