VIDEO: The Vestal Fire Department hosted a demonstration Wednesday evening of new fire suppression equipment not previously seen in this country.

Leader Group, an international manufacturer of firefighter equipment, met with the Vestal Fire Department to demonstrate “Diphasic,” an indoor fire suppression system.

Jerry Halpin, with C.E.T. Fire Pump, said the product reduces structural damage caused by firefighting.

“It causes a great deal of damage to structures when the fire is put out, this product reduces those particular incidences to almost zero,” Halpin said.

Halpin said the technology applies small amounts of water atomized into fine particles, combined with compressed air, to fight, suppress and extinguish fires.

“With science and new technology, there is a way of applying very small amounts of water that have been atomized into the tiniest particles of water that can be produced along with compressed air to fight, suppress, and extinguish fires,” Halpin said.

The substances that burn most commonly in fires are gases that come from fuel being heated from sources in buildings, such as wood.

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VIDEOS: A fire tore through the Winchester fire station Saturday night, destroying a rescue truck and leaving firefighters with no choice but to stand back and watch their own station burn.

The call came in just after 10 p.m. Saturday. For Winchester firefighters, it sounded like any other call — until they heard the address.

“It was kind of disbelief, not really thinking that it was possible that our building was on fire, very sinking feeling. Not knowing what is actually on fire. Is it just a truck? Is it the whole building?” Noah Bunn said.

Fire Chief Travis Baker arrived within minutes. Smoke was pouring from the building. Inside, fire was tearing through a rescue truck parked in its bay. All of the department’s gear was inside — and compromised.

“I never thought in a thousand years that I would end up at my own firehouse for a fire. All of our gear was in there. Every ounce of anything we could have used was compromised in the fire, so we more or less had to sit back and watch until somebody else came to do the job. It’s a very helpless feeling,” Baker said.

The rescue truck is a total loss. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

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Spokane Police officers searched for a potential arson suspect after two fires were set at High Bridge Park Tuesday evening. Justin De Ruyter with the Spokane Fire Department says a person set two fires at the park east of the river off of the 600 block of South Eighth Street. Those fires are now out with no injuries or structure damage.

Police on scene said witnesses saw a white man with no shirt in the area, who is believed to have started the fires. Police also found cans of butane in the area. The incident is under investigation and SPD is looking for the suspect.

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VIDEO: A Ridgefield family is looking for a new place to live after a fire destroyed the home they had been renting the last four years. Preston Pearson lived at the home along with his wife, Angie, and their six children — five girls and a boy, ages 8 to 16.

“Lot of memories here man. Lotta good times.” Pearson said from inside the home. The fire started late in the evening Friday night. He says his daughter had noticed a burning smell from the back of the house and alerted him.

Pearson said he tried to put the fire out with a hose but says it was burning too fast: “Just blazing within 30 seconds.” As everyone ran outside, he says his wife couldn’t find one of his daughters and thought she was still inside. Preston says he ran back in and upstairs to one of the bedrooms.

“As soon as I come back in here, you hear explosions in the backyard. This window shattered,” he said, pointing to a window on the staircase. “I just run upstairs and I don’t see anybody.” Turns out, everyone had made it out safely, except their dog, Mila, who died and was found later hiding under a bed. Mila was their 8-month-old Golden Labradoodle puppy who Preston said “had so much energy and was full of love.”

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VIDEO: Fire officials released a report Tuesday confirming that June’s Upriver Fire began in a vacant home, but noted that the exact cause remains “undetermined.” An investigation by Spokane County Fire District 9 and the Washington Department of Natural Resources found that the fire originated at a home along North Upriver Bend Lane before spreading to other structures and nearby wildland.

Property owner Robert Dubrasik told investigators the house had been vacant since 1996, though he repaired its roof in 2024 and regularly paid for electricity. Officials say they were “unable to determine an ignition source,” but pointed to an electrical failure and a potential break-in as “possible hypotheses.” “While the owner kept the main breaker switch off, we found [the] breaker panel with the breaker in the ‘on’ position,” the report read.

Investigators also said the fire “could have been started by someone (homeless or recreationalist) who broke into the house.” The property is located near several homeless encampments, and investigators say recreationalists start campfires that are “poorly” or “never” extinguished and eventually abandoned.

“We were not able to recover enough data from the scene to prove a human start,” investigators added. “However, fire damage may have destroyed such evidence, so we cannot disprove those hypotheses either.”
The report also confirmed that west-southwest winds drove the fire, which burned 212 acres.

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