Firefighters in Reno helped free a few furry scavengers that had found themselves trapped in a difficult situation in the middle of the night. Late Saturday, crew members of the Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District, Station 39 said they were awoken by the crashing sound of their garbage dumpster outside being tipped over.
- PUB DATE: 10/3/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVU-TV

Wind fanned a homeowner’s burn pile into a 35-acre wildfire that threatened seven homes Tuesday afternoon. A resident told dispatchers that a fire in the 900 block of North Cottonwood Road had gone out of control around 11:40 a.m., said West Valley Fire Chief Nathan Craig. The man was trying to clean up his property by burning weeds and brush.
- PUB DATE: 10/2/2018 5:44:23 PM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic

Aurieona Ginn says her boyfriend “keeps up with The Bellingham Herald all the time,” tagging and sending her stories online that she might find interesting. But she never imagined the story link he sent her last week — one that reported about the Bellingham Fire Department performing multiple intubations on the body of a deceased patient on the floor of the Station 1 apparatus bay in late July — would be about her father, 52-year-old Bradley Ginn Sr.
- PUB DATE: 10/2/2018 4:49:10 PM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald