The Spokane City Council voted against joining the Spokane Regional Emergency Communications system at Monday night's meeting. The SREC will provide communication and dispatch services for several agencies around the county. If the City Council had voted to join, the SREC would have provided those services for the Spokane Fire Department and Spokane Police Department.
- PUB DATE: 6/25/2019 8:20:12 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4

BENTON COUNTY, WA—The Tri-Cities here has an unusual fire apparatus stationed in Pasco--a fire train. The train transports water to difficult to reach places, and it features three monitors. In addition to getting to places that are hard to reach with fire apparatus, the train also acts as a water tender. While local department rigs carry 400 to 750 gallons of water, each train car carries 30,000 gallons of water.

Colville Tribe Emergency crews cleared up a 3,500-acre fire near Elmer City on Monday. The fire started late Sunday afternoon on a mountain ridge that has previously burned, so containment lines were already set up. Sage and brush burned, and due to windy conditions the fire grew within the containment area.
- PUB DATE: 6/25/2019 3:59:31 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4

A special weapon helped fire crews surround and eventually capture Thursday's wildfire just south of Finley at Meals Rd. and Toothaker Rd. It's called a fire train and fire leaders say the Tri-Cities is extremely lucky to have one stationed in Pasco. Benton County Fire District 1 chief Lonnie Click said not only do the trains transport water to hard to reach places: they attack wildland fires, swooping in with a one-two punch.
- PUB DATE: 6/25/2019 3:57:42 AM - SOURCE: KEPR-TV

Digging ditches. That’s what it looked like out on the prairie around Rainier on Monday, June 24, as men and women from all walks of life came together under one common name: firefighter. There wasn’t an actual fire on the prairie — just 450 firefighters of varying degrees of experience, learning new skills or honing old ones as part of the Western Washington Interagency Wildfire Training Academy.
- PUB DATE: 6/25/2019 1:47:59 AM - SOURCE: Nisqually Valley News