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

The Moses Lake Fire Department has received a grant to help fund three new firefighter positions. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant program, awarded the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant, providing about 75 percent of the total cost of wages and benefits for the first two years of the program, with a third year moving to 25 percent of wage and benefits.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2019 12:49:58 PM - SOURCE: iFiberOne

VIDEO: Everett firefighters spent Thursday afternoon watching for any flare ups at a vacant home that went up in flames around 11:30 a.m. in the 3200 block of Lombard street. The fire started less than 8 hours after two people were arrested inside the home. “I felt intense heat permeating through our drywall,” said Demetrus Badua who lives behind the burning house.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2019 12:37:23 PM - SOURCE: KOMO News 1000 AM and 97.7 FM. Seattle