An investigation into complaints of bullying and sexual harassment at Spokane Fire Department Station 2 found five officials violated city policies. Yet the investigation is being criticized as one-sided and thus, incomplete, by those named in the report and the union that represents them. The city’s Human Resources Department issued a report April 27 following a two-month-long investigation that named Battalion Chiefs Don Waller and Darin Neiwert, and Lts.
- PUB DATE: 5/23/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Spokesman-Review

While a brush fire scorched roughly 300 acres Tuesday afternoon, threatening at least seven homes on the 500 block of Lucas Road, a nearby tractor-trailer fire on Interstate 82 closed part of the highway for hours and backed up traffic for several miles. The cause of the brush fire — which was still burning late Tuesday — is under investigation, said Michael Daniels, deputy to the garrison commander at the Yakima Training Center.
- PUB DATE: 5/22/2018 10:39:09 PM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic

St. Louis (MO) Fire Department heavy rescue units (2). Spartan Gladiator cabs and chassis; Cummins ISX12 500-hp engines; 26-foot walk-in rescue bodies with forward walk-in design.

St. Louis (MO) Fire Department heavy rescue units (2). Spartan Gladiator cabs and chassis; Cummins ISX12 500-hp engines; 26-foot walk-in rescue bodies with forward walk-in design.

Rope rescues are rare for Longview firefighters. But that doesn’t stop the department’s rope rescue team from constantly honing its skills. “It’s a low-frequency, high-risk event,” Battalion Chief Troy Buzalsky said Tuesday. Buzalsky was standing at the bottom of an eight-story staircase at Campus Towers near Lower Columbia College.
- PUB DATE: 5/22/2018 9:16:00 PM - SOURCE: Longview Daily News