A blaze ripped through a Port Angeles-area home Sunday afternoon, completely destroying the building and causing multiple propane tanks to explode, firefighters said. Clallam Fire District No. 2 sent 20 firefighters to the blaze at 274 Alice Road at 3:47 p.m. Sunday and it took at least half an hour to knock down the flames, said Assistant Chief Mike DeRousie.
- PUB DATE: 2/25/2018 8:48:07 PM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

Spokane Valley firefighters battled wind and flames as they responded to an Otis Orchards house fire Sunday afternoon. At about 2:30 p.m., multiple neighbors called in a structure fire coming from a single-wide mobile home at 4118 North Kennedy Road, where flames and a large plume of smoke could be seen from miles away, said Shawn Pichette, spokesman for the fire department.
- PUB DATE: 2/25/2018 7:31:18 PM - SOURCE: Spokesman-Review

In the span of less than six hours, Longview Fire responded to three structure fires Friday night and early Saturday morning. One of those fires is being investigated by Longview Police due to its suspicious nature. According to Battalion Chief Blake Tomlinson, the largest fire was also the latest. Longview Police responded to a fire complaint in the 300 block of 21st Avenue at around 2 a.
- PUB DATE: 2/25/2018 2:11:19 AM - SOURCE: Longview Daily News

The Annual Washington Fire Chiefs- Training, Safety and Officers’ Section Conference is taking place at the Yakima Convention Center until February 28th. During the conference, firefighters will learn new tactics to help them continue saving lives. Ted Vander Houwen, Fire Commissioner at Naches Heights and Co-Chair said different fire stations throughout Washington are attending the conference.
- PUB DATE: 2/24/2018 6:44:33 PM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

An ambulance leaves a Mukilteo fire station at 3:06 a.m. traveling 45 mph, to rescue a child who has overdosed on his grandma’s Oxycontin at a duplex two miles away on 76th Street SW. The child weighs 48 pounds. He’s 6. How much naloxone does he need? It’s a fictional example of a math problem that doesn’t come up often for Mukilteo aid crews.
- PUB DATE: 2/24/2018 3:17:35 AM - SOURCE: Everett Herald