Firefighters from multiple agencies in Benton County and Walla Walla could soon be heading home from California. A strike team left for California on Oct. 28 to help battle the Kincade Fire. Crews from Washington state are scheduled to be demobilized today. They are on stand-by as they wait to get word if they'll be helping out with another fire in the state, or they get to come home.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2019 10:40:53 AM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

Royal City investigators are looking into the cause of a fire that claimed the life of a young girl. Around 3 a.m. Sunday, firefighters arrived to the Coachman Mobile Home Park in Royal City. The home, near Catalpa Avenue and Acacia Street, was close to other trailers on fire. According to the Grant County Sheriff’s Office, a 5-year-old girl was "trapped or otherwise unable to escape," they said in a Facebook post.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2019 9:44:01 AM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

If you’re a frequent user of emergency response dispatch apps or often see South King Fire and Rescue engines out in the community, you may notice something a little different. Last week, all of SKFR updated all of their engine and aid identifying numbers in coordination with the Zone 3 consortium, according to the department’s press release.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2019 1:53:19 AM - SOURCE: Federal Way Mirror

Some local fire and rescue chiefs are pushing back against the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities closure of the Silvertip Maintenance Station, located at the junction of the Seward and Hope highways. DOT&PF says five staffers have been moved and the station will no longer be responsible for plowing and maintenance of the the 17-mile Hope Highway, as well as Turnagain Pass from mile markers 45 to 74.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVA-TV CBS 11 Anchorage

President Donald Trump has signed a bill renaming the Sun Prairie post office after a firefighter killed in an explosion last year. U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s office says Trump signed the bill Thursday renaming the post office after Cory Barr. He was killed in a natural gas explosion in downtown Sun Prairie in July 2018.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKOW-TV ABC 27 Madison