On Aug. 29, the Sequim High School auditorium played host to two sessions of a training seminar put on by Jesus Villahermosa, Jr. of Crisis Reality Training. School district staff and members of the community learned about how to better handle active shooter or active lethal threat situations. “There’s no perfect plan for these situations,” said Villahermosa, who said that he retired from the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department as a sergeant and member of their SWAT team several years ago.
- PUB DATE: 9/4/2019 1:49:08 AM - SOURCE: Sequim Gazette

VIDEO: Cal Fire has opened an investigation into how a local fire department’s fire engine was burnt over, leaving two firefighters hurt during the Country Fire in the community of Cool Thursday. The twisted and burnt front end of a Garden Valley Fire Department engine sits in the middle of a blackened property.
- PUB DATE: 9/4/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOVR-TV CBS 13 Sacaramento

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol released dramatic dashboard camera video from a few weeks ago, when two firefighters in southeast Oklahoma were hit by a trailer along the side of a wet road. The video shows two men with the Stringtown Fire Department standing in a grassy area off a road in the rain when the driver of an SUV heading in the opposite direction lost control.
- PUB DATE: 9/4/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOCO-TV ABC 5 Oklahoma City

The City of Spokane is considering adding locks to its fire hydrants, and adding fill stations throughout the city for third-party companies to use after water was contaminated in a Hillyard neighborhood. In July, residents in some Hillyard neighborhoods were without water after a hydroseed truck was using the city's water hydrant to fill their truck and contaminated it.
- PUB DATE: 9/4/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

During an extreme weather emergency such as Hurricane Dorian, hundreds of first responders, law enforcement and county personnel work around the clock overseeing evacuations, shelters, flooded roads and securing the community from harm. At the Martin County Emergency Operations Center, they also must eat.
- PUB DATE: 9/4/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: TCPalm