At the age of 98, Jo Miller remembers as well as ever the last time she saw her late husband and fishing buddy suited up for work. It was three decades ago — 1988, the year Ben Miller retired from a career with the Santa Rosa Fire Department that he’d launched in 1956. After a huge City Hall retirement party, Ben and Jo Miller relocated to rural Oregon and spent many good times hooking salmon and steelhead in the Chetco River.
- PUB DATE: 5/21/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Trumbull Center Fire District, Trumbull, CT, Ahrens-Fox Mini Pumper. Ford F-550 4x4 SD Crew Cab XL; 6.7-liter V-8 OHV 300-hp turbo diesel engine; Hale DSD 1,500-gpm pump.

Trumbull Center Fire District, Trumbull, CT, Ahrens-Fox Mini Pumper. Ford F-550 4x4 SD Crew Cab XL; 6.7-liter V-8 OHV 300-hp turbo diesel engine; Hale DSD 1,500-gpm pump.

A fast-moving fire gutted a single-story house on the 11200 block of Rhody Drive in Port Hadlock on Friday, East Jefferson Fire-Rescue officials said. There were no injuries but the home was destroyed, agency spokesman Bill Beezley said. One of the three occupants noticed lights flicker and opened a bedroom door to find an electrically-heated blanket on an electric cord on fire at about 3:13 p.
- PUB DATE: 5/20/2018 2:37:13 AM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

The two mountain bikers did what they were supposed to do when they noticed a mountain lion tailing them on a trail east of Seattle. They got off their bikes. They faced the beast, shouted and tried to spook it. After it charged, one even smacked the cougar with his bike, and it ran off. It wasn't enough, authorities said.
- PUB DATE: 5/19/2018 3:37:02 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000