The Payson Town Council last week voted against merging the Payson, Hellsgate and Houston Mesa fire departments. Officials negotiated the merger for two years, which won overwhelming support from firefighters. The departments spent thousands on a consultant, which concluded a merger would save money, not require a tax increase and improve services.
- PUB DATE: 5/14/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Payson Roundup

It was a very early Saturday morning in November 1986, when Dan Sullivan said he arrived on the scene of his first fire as a new Quincy firefighter. And it was a bad one. The blaze was a two-alarm fire at a single family home in North Quincy at 28 Milton Road. When firefighters arrived, a mother and her newborn daughter were trapped inside the house.
- PUB DATE: 5/14/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Patriot Ledger

A man was extricated from his vehicle after it was heavily damaged in a crash near Orondo early Tuesday morning. Orondo Fire, Ballard Ambulance and Washington State Patrol responded to the report of a car crash about a mile south of Orondo on US-97 just after midnight Tuesday. Crews arriving found a heavily-damaged vehicle blocking the highway.
- PUB DATE: 5/14/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6

Sheldon (SC) Fire District, rescue. Ford F-550 cab and chassis; Ford Power Stroke 6.7L 300-hp engine; Hale HPX 300 370-gpm pump; UPF Poly 300-gallon tank; 10-gallon foam cell; FoamPro 1601 single-agent foam system.

VIDEO: Three people were taken to a hospital for minor burns and smoke inhalation after their house caught fire Monday afternoon on Riverhawk Lane near Three Rivers Drive. At about 5:30 p.m., the Pasco Fire Department received a call about an active fire at a home located at 6115 Riverhawk Lane. Five people were at home, but not all of them were inside the house, according to Pasco Fire spokesman Ben Shearer.
- PUB DATE: 5/13/2019 7:43:08 PM - SOURCE: YakTriNews