When you call 911. paramedics try their best to respond quickly, including those from Advanced Life Systems (ALS), one of two ambulance companies contracted by the city. The other being American Medical Response. 15 EMS crews are stationed across the Yakima valley. A Yakima city ordinance requires all of those ambulances to have paramedics on board.
- PUB DATE: 11/10/2019 10:48:37 PM - SOURCE: KIMA-TV CBS/CW+ 29 Yakima

West Richland Police and Benton County Fire District #4 responded to a fire that started spreading from a campfire around 1:30 p.m. Sunday. According to Sgt. Drew Hendrickson, two juveniles between 10-15-years-old started a campfire in a desert-like area near Van Giesen Street and Belmont Drive. Capt.
- PUB DATE: 11/10/2019 3:38:58 PM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

The Spokane Fire Department announced it successfully installed 181 fire alarms in homes across the Garland Neighborhood on Saturday. Firefighters said the installation was part of Fire Prevention Week, during which they installed the alarms in 85 homes. Of those installations, firefighters said one of the homes belonged to 70-year-old Dan, a veteran who lives alone and only had one smoke detector in his living room prior to their visit.
- PUB DATE: 11/9/2019 4:18:38 PM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4

With an almost entirely new board of public hospital district commissioners, the outgoing group prepares for the incoming to take a leap into fire and emergency medical services integration. “It takes a year and a half to get up to speed. We’re going to have a new board and it’s going to be trying to get up to speed with all kinds of things,” Commissioner Warren Appleton said during an Oct.
- PUB DATE: 11/8/2019 1:47:47 AM - SOURCE: Journal of the San Juans

The FDNY is making the social media rounds with a public service announcement warning the public against attacks on paramedics and emergency medical technicians. The PSA, posted on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram Thursday, comes in the wake of a brutal attack on an EMT last month, and includes tough talk on the penalty for punching a paramedic.
- PUB DATE: 11/8/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News