The Yakima Office of Emergency Management along with Yakima County Sheriff's Deputies and other authorities worked Tuesday to evacuate about 400 hundred kids and employees of summer camps in the Clear Lake area as a growing wildfire near White Pass threatened the area. Three camps at the lake were evacuated Tuesday after the area was put under a Level 3 evacuation notice.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2018 5:39:41 AM - SOURCE: KIT 1280-AM & 99.3-FM

A 48-year-old woman in mental crisis, who reportedly was about to be evicted from her Bremerton house, was hospitalized late Monday after allegedly dousing the interior in gasoline and setting in on fire. Bremerton police responded to a report of a woman breaking windows at a house near the corner Fifth Street and Chester Avenue at about 3:50 p.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2018 1:47:36 AM - SOURCE: Kitsap Sun

Hillsborough County will reopen its review of four paramedics facing discipline in the case of a stroke patient who died, saying it needs to know more about why the medics decided not to transport her during an emergency call. County Administrator Mike Merrill announced the decision after the paramedics gave statements during closed hearings into the matter Tuesday at County Center.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tampa Tribune and TBO.com (Tampa Bay Online)

According to the Asheville Fire Department, for the second time in North Carolina history, a firefighter death caused by cancer is being determined by the Industrial Commission as a “line of duty death.” The fire department says this decision means his family will receive a survivor’s benefit. It will also give Willis’ children free college education at public North Carolina universities.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLOS

A district judge issued a temporary restraining order against Mayor Sylvester Turner in the latest chapter of the long-standing dispute with the firefighter's union over a pay parity initiative. The Houston Professional Firefighter's Association claims Turner and council member Dave Martin, who is also named in the suit, used a meeting last week at the council's subcommittee on finance to campaign against the initiative that would establish "pay parity" between police officers and firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTRK-TV ABC 13 Houston