A fire Sunday caused extensive smoke damage to the Western Building on West Broadway Avenue in Moses Lake. Moses Lake Fire Chief Brett Bastian said the fire was reported by a passerby on the activity trail along Neppel Park who noticed smoking coming from the back of the commercial building. Firefighters arrived to find to all the doors locked to the building and nobody inside.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2018 3:13:16 AM - SOURCE: iFiberOne

Longtime Boulder Rural Fire Rescue Chief Bruce Mygatt retired this week after being with the department for almost 50 years. Mygatt, who told the department about a year ago he would be retiring, celebrated his last day on Wednesday. Mygatt joined the at-the-time all volunteer Boulder Rural and Suburban Volunteer Fire Department in 1972 and became the department’s first full-time chief when it became the Boulder Rural Fire Protection District.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Denver Post

Northern Mariana Islands Gov. Ralph DeLeon Guerrero Torres today announced that he has accepted the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) deployment plan offered by FirstNet and AT&T, meaning all 56 states and territories in the U.S. have made an “opt-in” decision. “Today, Gov. Torres made history,” FirstNet CEO Mike Poth said in a prepared statement.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Urgent Communications

As many as a dozen Chicago firefighters are facing disciplinary action for allegedly looking the other way while a colleague had sex with a woman at a South Side firehouse. The firefighter accused of engaging in the firehouse sex - with a woman who was his girlfriend at the time - is facing either a lengthy suspension or termination, City Hall sources said.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times

A firefighter suffered head trauma after a woman drove over a fire hose while Palmyra Fire Department was dispatched to the scene of a reported fire last week, police said. The department was dispatched at 4 p.m. Jan. 9 to 1300 Park Drive in North Londonderry Township for a report of a fire, township police said.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lebanon Daily News