Two people were displaced after their residence in 100 block of Meadow Drive west of Chehalis caught fire Tuesday morning. Nobody was injured and the two occupants made it out safely, thanks to smoke alarms. According to a press release from Lewis County Fire District 6, at around 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, dispatch got a call from one of the house’s occupants, saying they awoke to find a bathroom ceiling fan caught fire and was spreading to the roof.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2018 9:37:33 AM - SOURCE: Centralia Chronicle

The Sequim-Dungeness Hospital Guild recently donated Clallam County Fire District No. 3 funds to buy a software upgrade that officials say will improve the district’s quality assurance and improvement methods. At the guild’s annual Christmas appreciation luncheon on Dec. 13, Guild President Nancy McGovern presented the fire district with a $36,000 check from the guild’s thrift shop to purchase First Pass Performance Improvement Software.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2018 7:16:24 AM - SOURCE: Sequim Gazette

The ex-con accused of beating a FDNY firefighter to death in a road-rage incident faced a line of angry Bravest on Tuesday as cops walked him out of a Brooklyn police station. Joseph Desmond, 29, a reputed Latin Kings gang member, kept his head down as he exited the 62nd Precinct stationhouse in Bath Beach and filed past the silent firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News