Lewis County commissioners plan to ask Thurston 911 Communications for formal permission to study the feasibility of merging operations, the latest step in a long-running process that will determine the future of 911 service in the region. “This letter is to formally request that the TCOMM Administration Board allow TCOMM staff and Lewis County staff to be allowed to continue these discussions and study the feasibility of regionalization of 911 Communications services between our two counties,” reads the draft of a letter that Lewis County commissioners plan to finalize and send to Thurston 911 Communications.
- PUB DATE: 6/6/2019 4:14:09 AM - SOURCE: Centralia Chronicle

Washington Labor and Industries (L&I) launched an investigation into the City of Pullman and Pullman Fire Department response to the April 9 flood. Frank Ameduri, L&I communications consultant for the division of occupational safety and health, said L&I received a complaint on April 19 regarding Pullman’s response to the flood.
- PUB DATE: 6/6/2019 2:16:11 AM - SOURCE: Daily Evergreen

VIDEO: An explosion at the Roswell airport sent two local firefighters to hospitals in critical condition, and Wednesday night the community gathered to pray for those firefighters as investigators try to figure out exactly what happened. It was an emotional night in Roswell. Dozens of people came out, including other firefighters and their families hoping the two injured firefighters pull through.
- PUB DATE: 6/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRQE-TV New Mexico

Saving lives is in Joel Rosado’s blood, the same blood his sister shed in service to the city. Rosado, the brother of murdered Bronx EMT Yadira Arroyo is following in her footsteps. Rosado, 32, is graduating the FDNY EMS academy on Thursday and will be assigned to his big sister’s station, the Daily News has learned.
- PUB DATE: 6/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News

The paramedic faced a dilemma. After responding to the home of a woman with an open wound in February 2016, he was ordered by a doctor back at the hospital to drill a catheter into her arm. But the woman, a believer in alternative medicine, refused the treatment. Instead, the paramedic offered to perform Reiki, a Japanese healing technique based on “life force energy” that many doctors believe lacks scientific credibility.
- PUB DATE: 6/6/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WHYY-FM