Local firefighters responded to the Liberty Lake Regional Park on Saturday after a mountain biker reported he was lost somewhere in the park and injured. The mountain biker, a developmentally delayed teenager, called 911 just before 5: 30 p.m. on Saturday. The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office launched the Air 2 helicopter and was able to locate the teen from above based on a GPS ping from his phone, about five miles into the trail system.
- PUB DATE: 7/2/2018 2:21:50 PM - SOURCE: KAYU-TV MyFox Spokane

The village will temporarily cut back on its paid firetruck drivers for part of June and August, but a report by the New York State Financial Restructuring Board for Local Governments recommends cutting all of its paid firetruck drivers and using only volunteers. The village owns the fire house, three firetrucks and pays four truck drivers.
- PUB DATE: 7/2/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times

At 4:42 p.m. Saturday, June 30, a memorial bell cut through the silence of the courthouse plaza, honoring the fallen 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots killed five years ago fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire, ringing once for each name. Andrew Ashcraft, Robert Caldwell, Travis Carter, Dustin DeFord, Christopher MacKenzie, Eric Marsh, Grant McKee, Sean Misner, Scott Norris, Wade Parker, John Percin Jr.
- PUB DATE: 7/2/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Courier

PHOTO - It’s a familiar scene in old cartoons and movies. A high-rise building is on fire. Firefighters scurry from fire engines to the sidewalk carrying a large canvas-covered net with a bull’s-eye-like red spot in the center. Holding the stretched out net, the firefighters instruct people in the building to jump.
- PUB DATE: 7/2/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Eugene Register-Guard

There is legislative activity and legal issues involving fire protection in nearly every state. In Wisconsin, an attorney general opinion will place citizens and firefighters at risk for the rest of our careers and beyond, all because a 20-unit apartment complex can be built in 2018 without adequate fire protection because of a political and legal conflict.
- PUB DATE: 7/2/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse