Yakima Police and Firefighters are investigating three suspicious fires that started Wednesday morning. Firefighters tell NBC Right Now they were originally responding to a dumpster fire near Walnut and 7th Street around 4:00 a.m. On their way, they found a house on fire on the 200 Block of South 7th Street.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2017 10:52:39 AM - SOURCE: NBCRightNow.com

A 92-year-old woman who originally was reported missing early Wednesday after her home was gutted by fire has now been located alive and safe. Fire crews rushed to the scene, in the 700 block of SW 310th Street, at about 5 a.m. after receiving a 911 call about smoke and flames spewing from the single-story home, said Deputy Battalion Chief Dave Mataftin of South King Fire & Rescue.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2017 10:33:44 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

Firefighters said the number of calls are going up, but their fighting force is going down. Both Benton and Franklin Counties rely heavily on volunteer firefighters and need more. "Without the volunteers we couldn't survive," Benton County Fire District #4 Captain Ed Dunbar said. Dunbar started as a volunteer firefighter in 1983, and 20 years later he turned firefighting into a career.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2017 7:40:26 AM - SOURCE: KEPR-TV CBS 19

New details from fire officials paint the dangerous, and ultimately deadly, scenario at Marco Polo as changes are considered that could prevent a future disaster. Assistant chief Socrates Bratakos says the five-alarm fire that broke out on Friday, July 14, on the building’s 26th floor posed a major challenge for firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHON-TV FOX 2

It didn’t take long for some local firefighters to save a life, even though they had just finished their training. The three new hires made a life-saving rescue in their own fire station.Brock Trimmer, of Beloit, Sebastian Zlotkowski of Cleveland, and Ronnie Simone, of Warren, were all hired as Warren City firefighters earlier this year.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJW-TV MyFox Cleveland