Paramedic Trent Bowers received a call on a recent January night: A woman had been beaten at a St. Louis Family Dollar store. When Bowers arrived, the woman showed him injuries across her body. “This looks like it’s out of place,” he said, looking at her knee. He suggested she take the ambulance to the hospital, but the woman said she couldn’t afford it without insurance.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

When firefighter Richard “Dick” Boyer responded to a fire call at the Reading YMCA on a bitter cold morning in January 1985, he immediately sensed something wasn’t right. “The fire hose on the sidewalk was burning, and the handle on the Knox box had melted,” recalled Boyer, 76, a retired Reading fire chief.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Reading Eagle

A wind-driven fire contributed in the loss of more than $40,000 worth of cherry bins and a building in Yakima County. Fire District #5 crews responded to the blaze near Lateral A and Lundberg roads shortly before 8:45 p.m. on Saturday. They found a 20 x 60 enclosed pole building with cherry bins stacked closely to the blaze.
- PUB DATE: 2/2/2020 1:44:11 PM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

The Yakima Fire Department battled a fire at a familiar building to them. For the second time this week, firefighters put out a blaze inside an abandoned building near 10th and A streets on Saturday morning. It was confined to a single room, but strong winds pushed the smoke throughout the building.
- PUB DATE: 2/1/2020 7:40:50 PM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

VIDEO: Thanks to neighbors, some residents at a Federal Way apartment complex are fortunate to have escaped a fire Sunday. The fire was reported about noon at the Fox Run Apartments on South 348th Street near First Avenue. Flames stretched from the ground floor of an apartment building to the roof.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2020 3:44:43 PM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle