It's business as usual for the Spokane Fire Department when it comes to responding to calls. But they do have a contingency plan in place if they were to come into contact with someone displaying COVID-19-like symptoms. "We're extremely concerned about it. Primarily because it is a pandemic, it spreads so easily and can go through communities very quickly," Spokane Fire Chief Brian Schaeffer said.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2020 6:36:44 PM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6

A Spokane woman in jail for first-degree arson says she lit her own apartment on fire because she was mad at her neighbors. Natalia Hensz, 23, told 4 News Now she doesn’t have any regrets, either. The fire broke out March 6 around 10 a.m. at the Cedar Terrace Apartments at 1405 West 8th Avenue on Spokane’s lower south hill.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2020 2:57:14 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4

VIDEO: A new partnership hopes to increase the number of people in Indiana who can donate tissue after they die. The partnership is between Carmel Fire Department and Indiana Donor Network. The changes that this partnership brings could impact thousands of people a year. Organs cannot be donated from people who die outside of a hospital.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISH-TV CW 8 Indianapolis

“This is - ‘Follow me, follow me, follow me.’ Left, right, upstairs, basement, ‘Show me your basement.’ That’s a good question - ‘Where’s your bedroom?’ You would want to know ‘Is the baby in the bedroom?’’’ Cindy Hanzes, of Connellsville, demonstrated words in American Sign Language to firefighters attending a special class at the Morrell Volunteer Fire Company.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Herald-Standard - Metered Site

The man who would become Patient Zero for the new coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. appeared to do everything right. He arrived Jan. 19 at an urgent-care clinic in a suburb north of Seattle with a slightly elevated temperature and a cough he’d developed soon after returning four days earlier from a visit with family in Wuhan, China.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bloomberg Businessweek