The shortage of PPE is getting worse, with hundreds of medical professionals and first responders paying the ultimate price. But if the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that people are resourceful. Scientists at a crime lab in Kansas, for example, deduced a method to use evidence drying cabinets to decontaminate N95 masks for multiple uses.
- PUB DATE: 4/22/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Labratory Equipment

Yakima police arrested a man after they say he admitted to starting a fire inside of a truck, causing damages to a home garage and another vehicle. Police received a dispatch call about a garage fire incident located at the 500 block of N. 16th Ave. at about 4:20 a.m. on Monday. A homeowner told an officer woke up to an alarm on his cellphone alerting that the motion sensors on his surveillance cameras were activated in the garage.
- PUB DATE: 4/22/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIMA-TV CBS News Yakima

COVID-19 will have an impact of wildfire season in Oregon and Washington state, according to fire officials, who are trying to plan out how they will staff the front lines while maintaining social distancing measures. Fire officials go into every season looking at drought conditions, fuels, and how they will staff for fire seasons.
- PUB DATE: 4/22/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPTV Fox 12 News Portland

Firefighters responded to the scene of a brush fire that broke out in the Dishman Hills Conservation Area. According to Spokane County Fire District 8, crews were working to mop up the 1/4 acre fire Tuesday afternoon. Crews from District 8, the Spokane Valley Fire Department and the Washington State Department of Natural resources responded to the scene.
- PUB DATE: 4/21/2020 8:47:42 PM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6

A man using a forklift to clear debris on his West Valley property inadvertently started a brush fire that destroyed the forklift and burned nearly a quarter-acre of brush Tuesday morning. A man at 2815 S. 74th Ave. was working with the forklift when the exhaust caught some old bags on fire, and the flames spread into weeds, said West Valley Fire Department Capt.
- PUB DATE: 4/21/2020 4:46:56 PM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic - Metered Site