A group of New York City emergency medical service workers who gave interviews to the news media, including NPR, are suing the city for allegedly retaliating against them after speaking about their experiences responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday with the federal court in Manhattan, four EMS workers allege the city is violating their right to speak on issues of public concern under the First Amendment, as well as their due process rights.
- PUB DATE: 6/12/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: National Public Radio

Police arrested a Tacoma woman accused of setting five Seattle police cars on fire during riots last month in downtown Seattle. According to the Department of Justice, Margaret Channon, 25, was taken into custody Thursday at her home in Tacoma. Channon is charged with five counts of arson. The police cars were parked around 6th Ave.
- PUB DATE: 6/11/2020 5:20:29 PM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13 Seattle

Orcas Island Volunteer Firefighters are coming together to join thousands across the nation for a virtual climb this Saturday, June 13. The firefighters were originally slated to participate in the 29th Annual Firefighter Stair Climb with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in Seattle this March but were put on standby due to COVID-19.
- PUB DATE: 6/11/2020 2:35:06 PM - SOURCE: Orcas Issues News & Views

A storage building that had been converted into a residence in Grand Mound was damaged Thursday morning by a fire, the West Thurston Regional Fire Authority reported. The fire was reported just after 8 a.m. Thursday in the 5900 block of 189th Avenue in Grand Mound. “Crews arrived to find a storage building that had been converted to a small home with smoke and flames showing in the upper floor,” according to a social media post.
- PUB DATE: 6/11/2020 12:47:31 PM - SOURCE: Centralia Chronicle

A large, early morning house fire destroyed a home on Hazel Drive in Putnam Lake on Thursday. With no fire hydrants in the area, water was carried in on tanker trucks. The family living at the Hazel Drive home were all able to get out safely, with no injuries reported. Putnam Lake Fire Department responded to the scene, with mutual aid from Patterson, Brewster, Croton Falls, and New Fairfield and Danbury, Connecticut.
- PUB DATE: 6/11/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NY Journal News (Lohud.com)