A family's dog died when a fire destroyed their home on Lake Tanwax Thursday evening. The two-alarm fire broke out just after 5:30 p.m. in the 33800 block of Tanwax Drive East near Eatonville. Photos from the scene showed flames reaching dozens of feet high as firefighters worked to douse the fire.
- PUB DATE: 7/31/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

Firefighters were able to quickly extinguish a house fire early Thursday morning in West Central Spokane. One woman was home at the time of the fire in the area of Indiana ave. and Cannon St., saying the fire started in the back of her yard before flames extended to her attic. Spokane Fire Department Fire station 3 received the call before 4 a.
- PUB DATE: 7/30/2020 5:44:25 AM - SOURCE: KAYU-TV MyFox Spokane

Callers to 911 in Houston will no longer be asked if they are experiencing COVID-like symptoms, changing a months-long practice to pass on the information to first responders. Firefighters are now told to treat every call as if the patient or home is COVID-positive. Houston Fire Chief Sam Pena said the change is an admission of the widespread nature of the virus in the city and out of concern that callers were not always offering true information.
- PUB DATE: 7/30/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTRK-TV ABC 14 Houston

Scientists at Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine have launched one of the first tracking tools that provides a daily snapshot into COVID-19 cases in rural communities across the country. Using data from The New York Times and other sources, the COVID Urban Rural Explorer (CURE) focuses specifically on highlighting rural urban inequities in COVID trends by county and provides a daily report on rural areas experiencing spikes in COVID-19 cases.
- PUB DATE: 7/30/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSU.edu