Longview firefighters responded to a fire in a vacant house on the 200 block of 21st Avenue around 8:30 a.m. Thursday morning, according to the Longview Fire Department. Officials believe the home was "actively occupied" by transients, said Troy Buzalsky, battalion chief. "The front door was boarded up with plywood boards .
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2019 9:57:48 AM - SOURCE: Longview Daily News

Jennifer Coats looked out the window of her north Seattle townhouse one night in November and spotted a man inside a shelter made out of an over-sized sandwich board sign. She said he began lighting little fires inside his shelter and that bothered her. “I saw flame, a little flame and a bigger flame,” said Coats.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2019 6:37:20 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

Jennifer Coats looked out the window of her north Seattle townhouse one night in November and spotted a man inside a shelter made out of an over-sized sandwich board sign. She said he began lighting little fires inside his shelter and that bothered her. “I saw flame, a little flame and a bigger flame,” said Coats.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2019 6:37:20 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

Mashpee Fire Lt. Nicole Stanley realized just how important banning harmful chemicals in flame retardants is when she was diagnosed with occupational cancer last summer. “Now that I’ve been diagnosed with cancer, it’s an eye-opener to me. I thought I was protecting myself,” Stanley told the Herald. Doctors have attributed Stanley’s rare form of breast cancer to exposure of carcinogens in her 28 years of service on the Mashpee Fire Department, she said.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Herald

The FDNY will start training firefighters on how to safely pass gaps in elevated bridges after one of New York’s bravest plunged to his death from a span in Brooklyn on Sunday, Commissioner Daniel Nigro said. “We will try to ensure this never happens again in our city,” Nigro said outside the wake for Steven Pollard, 30, on Wednesday night.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post