Spokane and Spokane Valley Firefighters are now more equipped to help people during life threatening cardiac emergencies. Spokane County is the third of four sites in the U.S. selected for a pilot program to utilize off-duty firefighters in response to cardiac arrest calls in both public and private places.
- PUB DATE: 9/6/2017 3:13:31 PM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4

Officials have banned all outdoor burning in Washington state on Department of Natural Resources land because of multiple wildfires and smoke. The ban announced Tuesday prohibits outdoor burning on state forests, state parks and forestlands under DNR fire protection. Anyone caught violating the burn ban can face fines.
- PUB DATE: 9/6/2017 7:29:23 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7

A Charleston firefighter resigned his post after he said he felt slighted by the chief's response to a July rescue. Cameron Day, 32, rescued a woman from a historic home at 48 Smith St. the afternoon of July 14, as flames and smoke consumed the building. Former tenants of the building said the woman had run back into the house after learning her cat, Banjo, was left behind.
- PUB DATE: 9/6/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Charleston Post and Courier

A woman who was hiking over the weekend in the Columbia River Gorge said Tuesday that she happened across a teenager who threw "a smoke bomb" into Eagle Creek Canyon, igniting the now 10,000-acre Eagle Creek fire. Liz FitzGerald, 48, of Portland said she's fairly certain that she heard the teenager's friends -- including a boy who was video-recording with his cellphone and some girls in the group -- giggle as the firework dropped down a cliff and into the trees below.
- PUB DATE: 9/6/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Portland Oregonian, Hillsboro Argus, Oregon Live.com

City Council tonight approved an agreement that will expand the Rockford Fire Department’s mobile integrated health program, could reduce congestion in area emergency rooms and decrease the number non-emergency ambulance rides. Chief Derek Bergsten said under the program, Rockford firefighter paramedics will provide what is sometimes called “paramedicine.
- PUB DATE: 9/6/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Rockford Register Star