A 12-year-old girl from Miller Middle School in San Jose has won $25,000 in a science fair for her invention of a new fire detection system that’s faster, cheaper, and more reliable than smoke detectors. The Thermo Fischer Junior Innovator’s Challenge claims to be the nation’s premier STEM contest for middle schoolers, and Shanya Gill won over second and third-place inventions of a smartphone app that can detect certain cancers and an experimental method of generating electricity through plant cells.
- PUB DATE: 11/17/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Good News Network

VIDEO: As the excitement builds for the Formula 1 race hitting the valley this weekend, local hospitals and first responders are taking proactive steps to ensure the safety of the drivers and hundreds of thousands of fans. Alison McKnickle, vice chief of trauma at UMC, shares insights into her team's extensive preparations over the last several months.
- PUB DATE: 11/17/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTNV-TV ABC 13 Las Vegas

The inaugural Disaster Management Symposium was conducted Nov. 8, when consecutive hour-long webinars featured expert panelists exploring various aspects of the three main phases of a disaster for public safety and governments: planning, response and recovery. This virtual symposium was a joint effort of American City & County, IWCE’s Urgent Communications and IWCE.
- PUB DATE: 11/17/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: American City and County

PHOTO: Six residents in North Spokane had a car drive through the front of their home. On Nov. 16 around 8:30 a.m., the Spokane Fire Department (SFD) were dispatched to a technical rescue at a home near 2800 North Wellesley Avenue. As crews arrived, they saw that an SUV had driven through a fence and into the front of the home.
- PUB DATE: 11/17/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KAYU-TV FOX 28 Spokane

I’ll never forget the morning of the 4th of July in 2011. My son was 3 ½ months old and we are about to take him down to a neighborhood 4th of July mini-parade. My phone starts to vibrate with text messages with the exciting news that Wenatchee’s Tyler Farrar has just won a sprint stage - Stage 3 in the Tour de France! - on the 4th of July! No American sprinter has won a sprint stage at the Tour de France since.
- PUB DATE: 11/17/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPQ-AM 560 Wenatchee