Deputies arrested a woman Wednesday afternoon for allegedly setting fire to a shop and house west of Yacolt. Firefighters were called to the 15900 block of Northeast Gabriel Road at around 4:50 p.m. for a fire in a shop. Clark County Fire District 10 Chief Sam Arola said there was a metal shop burning next to a house.
- PUB DATE: 10/19/2017 2:48:32 AM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian

The Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety Proposition No. 1 levy lid lift on this Nov. 7 ballot is asking voters a to consider a serious question about fire and emergency protection in Fire District 43. The fire board placed the proposition on the ballot following the failure of the fire benefit charge measure in the August election.
- PUB DATE: 10/19/2017 2:03:59 AM - SOURCE: Covington & Maple Valley Reporter

Assistant Santa Rosa Fire Marshal Paul Lowenthal was in what sounded like a hailstorm of embers and ash that battered his truck as he tried to find a way through the fire burning above the city. He’d been dispatched to St. Helena the night of Oct. 8 to help manage a Napa County wildfire that started near Tubbs Lane just north of Calistoga.
- PUB DATE: 10/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Press Democrat

The Loch Sheldrake Fire Department was mourning the death of one of its firefighters on Wednesday. Ron Hinkle, 71, died after responding to a call Tuesday afternoon. According to Sullivan County Fire Coordinator John Hauschild, Hinkle was among a group of firefighters who responded to a motor vehicle accident around 2 p.
- PUB DATE: 10/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Middletown Times Herald-Record