Posted: Mar 18, 2018
Authorities say a fire destroyed an RV and killed a person inside early Sunday morning.
The fire occurred on the 14000 block of North Griffin Road near Prosser.
Officials say they originally got the 911 call at 1:45 AM.
The caller reported the possibly-occupied RV was completely engulfed in flames.
- PUB DATE: 3/18/2018 6:54:16 PM - SOURCE: KEPR-TV CBS 19
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Posted: Mar 18, 2018
An explosion has just destroyed the courthouse in Friday Harbor and it’s your job to keep San Juan County running.
At least, that’s what the municipality’s employees were told at a March 8 emergency training.
“It’s not really about the courthouse burning down,” said Brendan Cowan, director of San Juan County Department of Emergency Management, who spearheaded the event.
- PUB DATE: 3/18/2018 1:00:18 PM - SOURCE: Journal of the San Juans
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Posted: Mar 18, 2018
Several people are displaced after a house fire Saturday night in the 23200 block of Southeast 248th Street in Maple Valley.
Three people managed to escape to safety, and no injuries were reported.
Crews from Maple Valley Fire and the Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority responded just before 9 p.m.
- PUB DATE: 3/17/2018 10:47:57 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000
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Posted: Mar 17, 2018
A former Lewis County Fire District 9 volunteer accused of spending thousands of dollars of taxpayer money on fuel for his personal vehicle was sentenced on Wednesday to 30 days of electronic home monitoring.
It was his second set of convictions for thefts from the district.
Brady J. Mounce, 25, of Mineral, pleaded guilty Feb.
- PUB DATE: 3/16/2018 10:14:10 PM - SOURCE: Centralia Chronicle
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Posted: Mar 16, 2018
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A man working inside an old boiler at a Near East Side power plant had to be rescued when the lift he was in stopped functioning, leaving him about five stories off the ground. The Madison Gas and Electric worker was lifted down by rope and harness about an hour after the emergency call came in to the Madison Fire Department.
The Heavy Urban Rescue Team from the fire department set up a rope rescue system to lower the worker to the ground, but the worker wasn't confident the harness he had in the lift would be adequate, so a team member was raised to the lift to give a different harness to the worker.
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