Posted: Aug 30, 2018
The Wichita Eagle
Wichita residents could see a substantial shift in the way first responders handle thousands of medical calls to 911 each year. Early next year, the Wichita Fire Department will test sending emergency medical technicians on "what some have called band aids and aspirin" medical calls, Mayor Jeff Longwell said at a recent City Council meeting.
A study in 2016 revealed that about 15 percent of the time trucks had to come from other stations to cover calls while fire crews were handling incidents that were not severe.
EMTs are trained and certified to administer basic emergency services such as first aid and CPR. Ambulances are sent when a 911 dispatcher determines an incident is serious enough to warrant one.
The EMT units will be deployed in six stations around Wichita’s core area next spring, Crisp said, though details on what types of vehicles they’ll use have not yet been worked out.
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Posted: Aug 30, 2018
The two major wildfires that are still burning in North Central Washington are both under a new incident management structure as of Thursday.
The Cougar Creek Fire, which is centered 21 miles northwest of Entiat, was turned over to the Type 2 Northwest Incident Management Team #10, while the Crescent Mountain Fire, which is burning in the headwaters of the Twisp River Basin, is now under the command of the Type 1 Northern Rockies Incident Management Team.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2018 4:38:34 PM - SOURCE: iFiberOne
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Chelan Fire and Rescue must lower its staffing next year after a FEMA grant that helped boost hires runs out at the end of 2018.
From its current arrangement of four full-time personnel on duty 24 hours a day, Chelan Fire District 7 will revert to just two staff on duty, Chief Tim Lemon said Thursday.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2018 3:39:42 PM - SOURCE: iFiberOne
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Caught between a state-mandated 1-percent cap on annual property tax increases and rapidly increasing costs, leaders in the East County Fire and Rescue (ECFR) District have decided to ask voters to approve a fire levy lid lift in the November general election.
“We have worked very hard to live within our means,” ECFR Deputy Fire Chief Mike Carnes said.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2018 1:14:12 PM - SOURCE: Camas-Washougal Post-Record
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A late night fire at a waste transfer station just outside of Moses Lake left a building at the location in ruins.
Grant County Fire District No. 5 Battalion Chief Jack Zeilenga said the fire broke out about 10 p.m. Wednesday evening at the Consolidated Disposal Service, Inc. Transfer Station, located in the 9500 block of Road 7 Northeast.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2018 12:51:59 PM - SOURCE: Columbia Basin Herald
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