Pasco firefighters were being trained on a technique that uses fire against fire. The Pasco Fire Department had their yearly training on how to fight larger wild land fires with drip torch training today. The drip torch is filled with a mix of gasoline and diesel. Firefighters learned how to tip the can over and light the ground on fire in a line.
- PUB DATE: 7/11/2019 5:24:32 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

A man suffered traumatic leg and hip injuries Tuesday morning after leaping into the Lewis River from the BNSF Railway span known as the Ghost Bridge. Clark County Fire & Rescue, including a rescue boat, and Cowlitz County Fire District 1 were dispatched around 11:30 a.m. near Dike and Kuhnis roads, near Woodland.
- PUB DATE: 7/11/2019 2:16:20 AM - SOURCE: Longview Daily News

Every year on July 10, the West Valley Fire Department remembers Jessica Johnson, a young volunteer firefighter who lost her life battling a massive blaze in the Okanogan National Forest. Johnson was only 19 when she and three other firefighters lost their lives to the Thirtymile Fire on July 10, 2001.
- PUB DATE: 7/11/2019 12:41:02 AM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

Benton County firefighters responded to the scene of a rollover crash, and the vehicle which lit on fire was at risk of causing a vegetation fire. The crash happened just after 6 a.m. on Wednesday morning near, and first responders were dispatched to S Nine Canyon Road and E Kirk Road in Benton County, just south of Kennewick.
- PUB DATE: 7/11/2019 12:01:43 AM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

A Boston first responder underwent emergency surgery Wednesday after being stabbed multiple times by a patient she was treating in the back of an ambulance while en route to the hospital, officials said. A 31-year-old “emotionally disturbed” woman began stabbing the female EMT who was treating her in the back of an ambulance headed for Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston EMS Chief Jim Hooley told the Boston Herald.
- PUB DATE: 7/11/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFXT-TV FOX 25 Boston