Police are trying to sort out the circumstances surrounding a crash involving an Exeter Township Fire Department utility vehicle and a well-drilling truck. The crash was reported shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday on an icy stretch of Shelbourne Road, between Wingspread Drive and Rugby Road, in Exeter Township.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFMZ-TV 69 News

Area fire and police officials paid a visit to Pullman on Wednesday to sound the alarm over an “emergency staffing situation” at Whitcom Regional Dispatch Center. At an executive board meeting, leaders from Asotin County and the cities of Asotin and Clarkston told the center’s governing board they’re concerned about the shortage of dispatchers and how it could affect first responders and public safety.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

About five months following an E.coli water contamination in the Hillyard neighborhood, Spokane city leaders are planning to implement new hydrant policies. In July, people living in the area were advised to drink bottled water after a hydroseed truck hooked up to a fire hydrant, and some of the material backwashed into the hydrant, spreading E.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KREM 2 News

Two people were displaced by a fire after apparently disrupting efforts to extinguish it Wednesday night at a mobile home in north Clark County. Clark County Fire & Rescue was dispatched at 6:04 p.m. to 7909 N.E. 289th St. Arriving crews found smoke coming from the roof of the single-story house, Clark County Fire & Rescue Chief John Nohr said.
- PUB DATE: 12/18/2019 10:49:24 PM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian - Metered Site

A 27-year-old man died after a fire broke out at his home and fire officials said he tried to put it out himself. According to a press release from the Spokane Fire Department, firefighters responded to the duplex on North Lee Street near East Francis around 4 p.m. Tuesday. Firefighters were called to the scene to investigate a report of a death after a family member went to check on their relative.
- PUB DATE: 12/18/2019 1:40:35 PM - SOURCE: KREM 2 News