VIDEO: Public-safety and utility officials announced Wednesday that the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department will soon have another tool to keep the public safe — an agency-wide set of multi-gas detectors slated to be distributed to the city's emergency-response vehicles. The devices, which can detect natural gas, carbon monoxide and other toxic vapors, were donated by San Diego Gas & Electric and will be delivered to all 52 SDFRD stations this year, officials said during a morning briefing at San Diego Fire Station 45 in Mission Valley.
- PUB DATE: 5/11/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNSD-TV NBC 7 San Diego

VIDEO: Tucked away at a Buffalo fire station is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' (ATF) National Response Team truck — a mobile unit filled with tools and tech to investigate fires and explosions anywhere in the nation. “When we get on scene, we want to get right to work,” said Mark Meeks, ATF special agent in charge from the Albany field office.
- PUB DATE: 5/11/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Spectrum News 1 - Metered Site

When Arlington firefighters respond to drug overdoses, they could soon start bringing along enough doses of an opioid-reversal drug to leave some behind. This is part of a statewide effort “to prevent fatal overdoses and increase community access” to the nasal spray Narcan, one form of the reversal drug called naloxone.
- PUB DATE: 5/11/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ARL Now

Longview Fire and Longview Police are investigating an RV fire that claimed one life early Wednesday morning. Officials say Longview Fire responded to reports of a motorhome on fire, with explosions and heavy smoke. Additional crews and an ambulance were added due to the size of the fire. When firefighters arrived, they found the motorhome engulfed in flames.
- PUB DATE: 5/11/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KATU-TV ABC 2 Portland

Firefighters with Snohomish Regional Fire & Rescue responded to a fire at a grocery store in Monroe Tuesday morning. At 8:28 a.m., crews responded to the report of fire and smoke at Park Place Corner Grocery in the 17800 block of West Main Street in Monroe. Firefighters quickly arrived and contained the fire within minutes.
- PUB DATE: 5/11/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle