A new study by car insurance saving app Jerry, reports drivers in South Dakota are most at risk of drunk driving Thanksgiving travel traffic fatalities. The number of fatal traffic crashes over the Thanksgiving holiday rose by 24% in the two years after the COVID-19 outbreak, hitting the highest level since 2007, as more people chose to avoid air travel on what is traditionally the busiest travel holiday of the year.
- PUB DATE: 11/22/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: DRG News

Four finalists are being considered for the next chief of Clallam County Fire District 3. Finalists were announced on Nov. 7. They are: Ronald Martin, current mass care coordinator for Lee County Board of County Commissioners in Florida; J. Kevin Nalder, most recently fire chief for the City of Palm Springs, Calif.
- PUB DATE: 11/21/2023 11:30:00 PM - SOURCE: Peninsula Daily News Online - Metered Site

A man who was inside an RV in Marysville when it caught fire is in the hospital with critical injuries. Marysville Fire District firefighters were dispatched to a mobile home park in central Marysville shortly after 1:35 a.m. on Tuesday and arrived to find heavy black smoke coming from the RV. Inside the RV, firefighters found a man in his 50s who had suffered smoke inhalation.
- PUB DATE: 11/21/2023 11:52:00 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle

VIDEO: Only you can prevent wildfires -- by supporting an effort to bring a new specialty license plate to Washington. Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz, State Sen. T'wina Nobles and other state leaders have launched a signature campaign to establish the state's first-ever Smokey Bear license plate.
- PUB DATE: 11/21/2023 1:39:52 AM - SOURCE: KREM-TV CBS 2 Spokane

An abandoned motel went up in flames in Gastonia Monday night. Authorities on the scene say the blaze started as a call for a dumpster fire in the 500 block of Cox Road around 8 p.m. on Nov. 20. But when firefighters from the Gastonia Fire Department arrived, they saw the flames shooting in the air and upgraded it to a commercial fire.
- PUB DATE: 11/21/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJZY-TV FOX 46 Belmont