PHOTO: Fire crews have control of a fire that broke out at Beach RV in Benton City Thursday morning. Six RVs burned; two are considered a total loss. According to Benton County Fire District #2, a car fire spread to the RVs. No one was injured, however the campground’s manager tells KAPP-KVEW a cat died in the fire.
- PUB DATE: 10/15/2020 10:24:41 AM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

Two adults and their cats safely escaped an early morning house fire near West Valley High School. Spokane Valley firefighters responded to the home on N Sargent Rd near E Valleyway Ave around 7:20 a.m. A woman who lived at the home woke up to a strong smoke smell and noticed a hotspot on her ceiling.
- PUB DATE: 10/15/2020 8:43:04 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

On Wednesday morning, Tracy Williams, the assistant fire chief for the Westview-Fairforest Fire Department in Spartanburg County, joined other firefighters from across the state at the South Carolina State Fire Academy for a ceremonial bill signing for a law that will support firefighters in the state diagnosed with cancer.
- PUB DATE: 10/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WIS-TV NBC/CW 10 Columbia

VIDEO: Before the age of two-way radios, police and fire call boxes could be found on numerous corners across the District of Columbia. The first installations of these boxes began as early as the 1860s. Firefighter call boxes were connected to a central call station and emergency responders would receive a telegraph of which box to dispatch to.
- PUB DATE: 10/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WUSA-TV CBS 9 Washington, D.C.

San Diego agreed this week to pay $3.4 million to more than 700 city firefighters to compensate them for underpaid overtime they should have received several years ago. The payout comes six months after the city reached a similar legal settlement with more than 2,300 other city workers for the same kind of underpaid overtime.
- PUB DATE: 10/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune - Metered Site