A father and three children were killed and a little girl is fighting for her life at the hospital after a fiery crash in Auburn Thursday evening. Police were called to the intersection of 17th Street SE and R Street SE just after 5:30 pm., according to Mark Caillier with Auburn Police. When they arrived, they found the vehicle on fire.
- PUB DATE: 6/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

A private ambulance company says two Washington state employees accused of making derogatory comments about Native Americans on Facebook are no longer working there. A spokeswoman with American Medical Response, Tawnya Silloway, said in an email Thursday night that two are out. The employees were placed on unpaid leave Tuesday as AMR investigated "culturally insensitive" comments made regarding a photo of a Native American teen on Facebook.
- PUB DATE: 6/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

"What we focus on in the training is how do we sequence these things and do things at the same time," said Bill Godfrey, lead instructor. "Manage it all. communicate, keep everything and everybody informed." A Benton County first responder stumbled upon the course online. Chief Bill Whealan from Benton County Fire District #4 applied to be the host agency after the discovery.
- PUB DATE: 6/28/2018 9:32:14 PM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

Lewis County 911 Manager Dave Anderson announced his resignation Tuesday, leaving the post after two and a half turbulent years, according to internal memos obtained by The Chronicle. “Through all the hurdles and hardships, I have achieved what I set out to accomplish, and then some,” Anderson wrote.
- PUB DATE: 6/28/2018 3:35:03 PM - SOURCE: Centralia Chronicle

Perspective and what we focus on influences our outcomes.  As a technician, when a clock doesn’t work, we take it apart and look for that thing, the bad piece, the “bad apple” in the bunch.  We pride ourselves on quickly finding the problem and fixing the clock.  The greater picture, however, might be much more complex than is immediately apparent, much the way the formation of a cloud is many dynamic forces coming together, which ultimately create rain in the sky or a life-changing hurricane.  How we approach our work, looking for that one “bad apple” thing (clocks) or analyzing the big picture forces in a dynamic environment (clouds) will dictate our outcomes.