South County Fire Deputy Chief Jason Isotalo has been promoted to assistant chief of operations. In this role, Isotalo leads the regional fire authority’s operations division, which is responsible for equipping, staffing and operating 14 fire stations to provide prompt fire and emergency medical response to more than 250,000 residents of southwest Snohomish County.
- PUB DATE: 9/27/2020 9:42:29 AM - SOURCE: Lynnwood Today

Yakima Fire Department crews responded to three brush fires Thursday night near the 16th Avenue off-ramp from SR 12 westbound. The largest of the fires measuring about 2,500 square feet. Firefighters were alerted to the larger fire at 9:30 pm last night. Crews then found a small fire about 100 yards west of the main fire.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2020 10:43:05 AM - SOURCE: KNDO-TV NBC 23 News Richland

PHOTOS: On Thursday September 24, 2020 at 2:50 pm the Bath Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched for a working structure fire at T&R Environmental Services Haz Mat building located next door to T&R Towing on Route 415 North of the Village of Bath. Large plumes of heavy black smoke could be seen for miles.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WETM-TV NBC 13 El Mira

VIDEO: Tamara Thacher is believed to have died from her job as a firefighter, years after running into burning buildings. Her memorial last December was a time of reflection, not just of her life and service but the illness that cut her life short. The Sacramento Fire Department said her cancer is presumed to be the result of exposure to toxic chemicals firefighters potentially encounter every day.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTXL-TV FOX 40 Sacramento

The first study to analyze the structure of the novel coronavirus from two waves of infection in a major city found that a more contagious strain dominates recent samples, researchers from Houston Methodist Hospital said on Wednesday. They examined more than 5,000 genomes from viruses recovered in the earliest phase of the pandemic in Houston, an ethnically diverse city of 7 million, and from an ongoing more recent wave of infections.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Yahoo News