“I wouldn’t want them to save my life,” said Yakama Nation tribe member Wade Ohms. Ohms says he wouldn’t trust the EMTs from Yakima’s American Medical Response team, who recently posted controversial comments on Facebook about Native Americans. “That’s really unprofessional. As EMTs, emergency technicians, that’s really sad to hear someone say something like that,” said Ohms.
- PUB DATE: 6/28/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIMA-TV CBS 29 Yakima

More than 30 firefighters from across the Upper Yakima Valley responded to a fire that injured one person and damaged a Lancaster Road home Wednesday morning. A resident of 600 Lancaster Road returned home about 7 a.m. to find a fire burning on the ground floor of the house, according to Selah Deputy Fire Chief Jim Lange.
- PUB DATE: 6/27/2018 10:53:58 PM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic

The Seattle Fire Department ruled Wednesday that Tuesday night’s large barge fire on the Duwamish River was accidental and it estimated damage at $1 million. The barge was loaded with crushed cars — scrap metal — and fire officials did not say exactly how the fire began. The barge was moored in the 600 block of S.
- PUB DATE: 6/27/2018 8:15:09 PM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13

A fire heavily damaged two classrooms inside an exterior building at Gig Harbor's Harbor Heights Elementary School Wednesday. Firefighters were called to the school around 3:30 p.m. for reports of the fire and found flames coming out of one of the portable classroom buildings. They were able to keep the flames from spreading beyond the portable, Gig Harbor Fire officials said.
- PUB DATE: 6/27/2018 5:47:26 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

A Spokane man has been arrested on arson and harassment charges after he tried to burn down a neighbor's home According to probable cause documents, police were called to a house on N. Crestline Monday night by a woman who said her son was mentally unstable and had booby trapped the house, and possibly made other weapons.
- PUB DATE: 6/27/2018 5:35:49 PM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6