Originally scheduled for last month but postponed, new Chehalis Fire Chief Adam Fulbright’s formal badge pinning ceremony and reception have been rescheduled to June 12, according to a news release from the city. The reception will be held from 4:30 to 5 p.m. in the city council chambers at Chehalis City Hall, located at 350 N.
- PUB DATE: 5/31/2023 9:27:24 PM - SOURCE: Centralia Chronicle - Metered Site

Crews started battling a massive fire on Wednesday at the abandoned Ostrom’s Mushroom Farm near Lacey. Lacey fire officials say the fire could take days to put out as it is at a very large building and burning the over 50-year-old wooden mushroom racks. No one was supposed to be inside the building, as the Ostrom Mushroom Company moved operations to Sunnyside four years ago, but there is a lot of graffiti on the building, so people do have access to the exterior.
- PUB DATE: 5/31/2023 10:39:54 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle

Investigators are working to determine what started a fire at a Kirkland home on Wednesday. Firefighters were called to the house on Northeast 95th Street shortly before 4 a.m. The home is close to Mark Twain Elementary School. The response from fire crews and Kirkland Police closed 95th Street between 128th and 130th.
- PUB DATE: 5/31/2023 10:31:00 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle

A firefighter has been injured and multiple stores are destroyed after a massive fire started in the Bronx late Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning. Officials say the flames destroyed a tire shop and flower store on the Cross Bronx Expressway Service Road just before 11 p.m. Tuesday. Video shows how large the fire was from far away, with its thick plume of black smoke rising above the flames.
- PUB DATE: 5/31/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABC-TV ABC 7 New York

VIDEO: ”It had to be a narrative, a documentary or a how-to,” said Shawn Packard, a Cinematography student at Full Sail University. A school capstone project inspired a student to dig deep into his hometown. “I live here, I have lived here my whole life. It has been home for me. It kind of means a lot with family and the traditions and the community that we have built here,” Packard said.
- PUB DATE: 5/31/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABI-TV CBS/CW+ 5 Bangor