The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded the City of Vancouver’s Fire Marshal’s Office an approximately $224,446 Fire Prevention and Safety grant. The grant will support the Vancouver Fire Marshal’s Project Home Safe campaign to reduce the frequency and severity of residential fires through fire and life safety education and outreach.
- PUB DATE: 9/24/2019 7:15:29 AM - SOURCE: City of Vancouver, WA

A family of four lost everything Saturday morning as their small Lake Lawrence home was engulfed in flames due to an apparent malfunction with the building’s water heater. No injuries were reported. First responders received calls from the homeowner around 7:10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, with reports that their home at 17319 154th Way S.
- PUB DATE: 9/24/2019 2:49:24 AM - SOURCE: Nisqually Valley News

After 19 years of dedicated service on Lopez Island, Battalion Chief/Paramedic Tracie Red Elk is hanging up her stethoscope, stowing her fire helmet and sailing off into a well deserved retirement. Tracie began her Lopez Fire and EMS career in 2000 as a volunteer firefighter and EMT. She went on to become a paramedic in 2010 and brought those critical life saving skills to Lopez.
- PUB DATE: 9/24/2019 1:57:53 AM - SOURCE: Islands Weekly

Clark County Fire District 3 is investigating “suspicious” structure fires of a house and workshop they responded to Sept. 19, the district announced last week. Fire personnel responded to the fires in the 1100 block of Southeast 20th Avenue at about 2:30 p.m. Sept. 19, according to a fire district news release.
- PUB DATE: 9/24/2019 1:41:33 AM - SOURCE: The Reflector

"People can flip on a dime, this situation was so quick and so crazy," Detroit Fire Union Chief Mike Nevin said, describing the dangerous scene his fire crew faced Saturday night. They were called to Arizona Street for a man in his 50s who had a possible heart attack. When medics arrived they started CPR.
- PUB DATE: 9/24/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJBK-TV FOX 2 Detroit