PHOTOS: “If we can save just one life, it’s all been worth it,” remarks 2019 AKC ACE Award-winning dog owner Dayna Hilton. Hilton, executive director of the Arkansas-based Keep Kids Fire Safe ® Foundation, has certainly saved far more lives than one, but she isn’t the star of the road appearances and Skype shows that keep her in motion year-round.
- PUB DATE: 9/27/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: American Kennel Club

VIDEO: A Sand Springs business is helping preserve a part of history in Hominy. A 1948 Mack Fire Truck was the first fire truck purchased by the Hominy Fire Department, 72 years ago. It needs some costly repairs, but a Sand Springs body shop is offering to restore the truck for less, to make sure it lives on for many more years.
- PUB DATE: 9/27/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFAQ-AM 1170

pokane County’s rate of deaths from falls is more than double of that of the rest of the U.S. and Washington state as a whole, according to Spokane Regional Health District. In 2017, the most recent year for which data are available, 178 people in Spokane County died from an accidental fall; that’s 29 deaths from falls per 100,000 people.
- PUB DATE: 9/27/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Journal of Business

About 200 apple bins were destroyed in a fire early Thursday in Yakima. The Yakima Fire Department says a large stack of apple bins caught fire next to a fruit warehouse around 4:30 a.m. Firefighters used water to prevent the warehouse from catching fire and to keep it from spreading to other stacks of bins.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2019 7:39:50 PM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

An overfilled propane tank prompted an evacuation at a Tieton Drive nursing home Thursday afternoon. Yakima firefighters were called to Willow Springs Care and Rehabilitation, 4007 Tieton Drive, around 1:35 p.m. on a report of a gas leak from a 50-gallon propane tank. An employee of Amerigas had delivered fuel to the nursing home for its backup generator and overfilled the tank, said Michael Cleveland, Willow Springs’ administrator.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2019 5:34:55 PM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic - Metered Site