The Community Response Team has received its second one-year grant as the mental-health project develops a system to identify and help “super utilizers” of emergency services without repeated 911 calls. The CRT triumvirate — police officer, fire paramedic and mental-health counselor — respond to mental-health calls in an emergency medical service truck.
- PUB DATE: 2/25/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tulsa World

The Yakima Valley and the rest of the country has been trying to figure out the best way to handle the opioid crisis over the last few years. But now, fentanyl deaths are on the rise in the valley at an alarming rate. “You can see that fentanyl is on an upswing in the last two years,” County coroner Jim Curtice said.
- PUB DATE: 2/25/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIMA TV

A man died in in a house fire in Ballard on Sunday, the Seattle Fire Department said. Firefighters pulled the man from the house on the 2800 block of Northwest 61st Street after responding to a report of a fire shortly after 7 p.m. Hilton Almond, a spokesman for the Fire Department, said the man was an adult and the only occupant of the home.
- PUB DATE: 2/24/2019 10:18:50 PM - SOURCE: Seattle Times

A man suffered minor burns after trying to melt the ice and snow with a propane torch on his front porch. Action News went live on the scene Tuesday around 11:30 a.m where firefighters went to a home on the West 24th loop near Olympia street. Firefighters told Action News that a renter of the house wanted to melt the ice and snow off of his front porch.
- PUB DATE: 2/24/2019 12:53:13 PM - SOURCE: KEPR-TV CBS 19

Three people and four pets were displaced after a Sunday morning house fire in Otis Orchards. According to the Spokane Valley Fire Department, firefighters responded to the 2100 N block of Powell Road around 9:30 a.m. after a neighbor noticed the fire across the street. That neighbor notified the resident that was home at the time and they were able to safely evacuate with the family pets.
- PUB DATE: 2/24/2019 12:45:41 PM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6