Fire departments across the Tri-Cities are taking extra steps to protect themselves and patients amid novel coronavirus concerns. The Kennewick Fire Department and others have COVID-19 medical kits. They were created by the department and contain multiple items such as disposable sheets, masks, pillowcases, blankets, gowns and more.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2020 4:45:53 PM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

After several fires and alarm calls over the weekend, the Spokane Valley Fire Department is urging residents to have home inspections and to make sure that carbon monoxide detectors, smoke detectors and sprinklers are all functional. Monday morning, fire personnel battled a fire at Longhorn Barbeque on Argonne.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2020 2:55:00 PM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4

A family of seven is safe after a fire blazed through their home early Monday morning. Around 12:47 a.m., a single story house caught fire near Cottonwood Springs Blvd. and Kase Blvd. According to Benton County Fire District 1, the fire started in the garage and extended into the attic. The family, including five kids, was woken up by smoke alarms and were able to get out safely before fire crews arrived.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2020 3:38:19 AM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

The Cumberland County Coroner’s Office has released the names of the two people killed Monday morning in a fire in Monroe Township. Jerome Guise, 34, of Boiling Springs, was a firefighter with the Mount Holly Springs fire department, Coroner Charley Hall said. Guise was killed when the front porch of the home on the 1500 block of Boiling Springs Road collapsed while he was fighting the fire.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: PennLive Patriot-News

They’re not the Bravest when it comes to the coronavirus. The FDNY won’t dispatch its firefighters to potential coronavirus patients, leaving its paramedics and EMTs to handle them alone, The Post has learned. The department issued an order Friday temporarily relieving firefighters from responding to calls of the second highest priority for patients with fever, coughing, difficulty breathing or even those who are unconscious.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post