A couple burned in an eastern Washington wildfire is continuing to recover in Seattle. Jacob and Jamie Hyland were burned while fleeing from the Cold Springs Fire in September. Their unborn child and one-year-old son passed away. An update posted to a GoFundMe page for the couple on Sunday, Oct. 11 says that Jake will be having a skin-flap surgery to help the skin on his hand grow back and involves sewing it to his stomach for three weeks.
- PUB DATE: 10/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KREM-TV CBS 2 Spokane

Benton County Fire District 4 just shared construction progress on their brand new station in West Richland. Station 430 is on 8031 Keene Rd and should be operational early 2021. This will be the first new station for the district in over 20 years. Two Type 1 fire engines have also been ordered and are being manufactured.
- PUB DATE: 10/12/2020 12:30:01 PM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

VIDEO: Jason Cortez, a beloved San Francisco firefighter-paramedic who was killed during a training accident last week, was knocked over a third-floor railing by a water blast from a valve he had “inadvertently” opened, authorities said in a preliminary report released Sunday. Cortez, 42, was participating in a training drill Wednesday when he was injured.
- PUB DATE: 10/12/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPIX-TV CBS 5 San Francisco

VIDEO: An extra-alarm fire involving multiple homes in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood Sunday night has left one firefighter suffering from minor injuries. The fire started just after 11:30 p.m. inside of a vacant 2 1/2-story home in the 800-block of North Lawndale Avenue, the Chicago Fire Department said.
- PUB DATE: 10/12/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLS-TV ABC 7 Chicago

Across the US, coronavirus outbreaks seem to be larger than ever before. On Saturday, 12 states hit record seven-day rolling average case counts, according to a Business Insider analysis of data from The COVID Tracking Project, which compiles data from state and territory-level public health authorities.
- PUB DATE: 10/12/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Science Alert