Most teens have never cut open a vehicle using the jaws of life or have seen a police K9 in action, although the 13 participants in this year’s Teen Safety Academy recently saw firsthand the inner workings of Federal Way’s police and fire departments. The annual Teen Safety Academy, a partnership program between Federal Way Police Department and South King Fire and Rescue, is in its third year of creating positive interactions.
- PUB DATE: 6/30/2019 1:49:04 AM - SOURCE: Federal Way Mirror

A truck carrying Buhrmaster Baking Co. products caught fire along Interstate 82 south of Ellensburg early Saturday morning, causing a roadside spectacle, but no injuries. The truck was headed for a farmers market in Ellensburg when the fire started about 15 miles away from the city. The bakery, owned by Larry Burmaster, had only resumed offering its goods at the Downtown Yakima Farmers Market last week.
- PUB DATE: 6/29/2019 4:33:31 PM - SOURCE: KDBL-FM 92.9

Firefighters spent all of Friday night and Saturday morning responding to a fire that engulfed a home and threatened two others in a residential neighborhood in Airway Heights. A male resident escaped the home with no injuries, but a firefighter was briefly hospitalized due to exhaustion, said Don Malone, assistant chief of the Airway Heights Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 6/29/2019 3:15:55 PM - SOURCE: Spokane Spokesman-Review

Kyle Ohashi has appeared regularly on local news channels, websites and in newspapers as the public information officer (PIO) for the Kent-based Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority for the last 15 years. But those days of informing the public about fires and fire safety will come to a halt the end of June when Ohashi retires after 30 years with the department.
- PUB DATE: 6/29/2019 2:19:48 AM - SOURCE: Covington & Maple Valley Reporter

Riverside Fire Authority is in the process of implementing a new policy that redefines situations where firefighters would step foot on property after allegations of an illegal burn. RFA Chief Mike Kytta said the changes don’t apply to fires that are threatening property or people, but are rather intended for law enforcement to respond to calls of illegal burns that are still under control but violate the conditions of burning restrictions or bans.
- PUB DATE: 6/29/2019 2:15:04 AM - SOURCE: Centralia Chronicle