Imagine serving a very small community on a tiny budget with a crew of less than 15 people and an average age of about 22. Now imagine a catastrophic storm sweeping through and ravaging that community while destroying all your equipment and even your personal vehicles. Sounds like enough to make the average person throw up their hands and give in, but the young members of the Plum Grove Fire Department never quit as the flood waters from Hurricane Harvey continued rising, and certainly not when members of the community were also stepping up to help those in need.
- PUB DATE: 9/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse.com

This past April, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, M.D., announced that the HHS will provide $485 million in grants to help states combat opioid addiction. The funding has been allocated to all 50 states over two years through the State Targeted Response to the Opioid Crisis Grants provided in the 21st Century Cures Act.
- PUB DATE: 9/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

Oregon, California, and British Columbia are all ahead of Washington state when it comes to schools, roads, and privately owned older buildings being ready to resist the shaking forces from an earthquake. That's the message Governor Jay Inslee is being given. Inslee was presented with the information from his Resilient Washington Subcabinet.
- PUB DATE: 9/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: king5.com

VIDEO - The Church Arsonist Task Force says they’ve followed all their leads as far as they could and now they’re turning to the public for help identifying a suspect. They hope the public can recognize the man seen in surveillance footage or a hat found at a crime scene to give law enforcement further leads to investigate.
- PUB DATE: 9/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KATU-TV ABC 2 Portland

Toppenish’s fire chief knows what fueled the fire that destroyed the city’s public works building last month. He just doesn’t know exactly what sparked the paint-thinner fumes. “It’s either from a heat source or a spark from the combustion engine on the sprayer,” said Timothy Smith. The fire department’s report on the Aug.
- PUB DATE: 9/27/2017 10:17:44 PM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic