VIDEO: A hero was escorted home on Saturday. Okanogan County Assistant Fire Chief Christian Johnson died from injuries he sustained while fighting the Spring Coulee Fire this summer. On Saturday, a procession spanned from Bothell to Okanogan. Johnson served with the Okanogan Fire Department for 20 years.
- PUB DATE: 10/12/2019 5:27:56 PM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4

A Friday night fire at the Blue Flame Asian Bistro has temporarily closed their East Wenatchee location for restoration. Douglas County Fire District 2 and Chelan County District 1 crews responded just before 11:00 p.m. to the restaurant on Valley Mall Park for a fire in the kitchen area. Fire Marshal Kurt Blanchard says the fire was first reported by employees of Blue Spoon Frozen Yogurt.
- PUB DATE: 10/12/2019 3:34:02 PM - SOURCE: KPQ-AM 560

Winlock, Vader and Lewis County governments were awarded grants of $750,000 each through the Community Development Block Grant program for infrastructure improvement projects, the state Department of Commerce announced this week. CDBG grants are funded by the federal office of Housing and Urban Development and administered through the state Department of Commerce.
- PUB DATE: 10/12/2019 1:57:41 AM - SOURCE: Longview Daily News - Metered Site

About 23,000 homes -- involving roughly 100,000 people -- have been told to evacuate in the northern Los Angeles area because of the Saddleridge Fire, Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said Friday. At least 25 homes, many in the Porter Ranch area, have been damaged, Los Angeles Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas said.
- PUB DATE: 10/11/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CNN

Calling it “just a small token of appreciation,” Chicago aldermen on Thursday gave preliminary approval to an ordinance that would provide a property tax break to the spouses of police officers, firefighters, and paramedics who die in the line of duty. The measure sponsored by Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson (11th) would allow those spouses to apply for a waiver of the city’s portion of their property tax bill for as long as they remain unmarried, and stay in the home where they lived with their wife or husband.
- PUB DATE: 10/11/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBBM-TV CBS 2 Chicago