In this short video, Ken Newell descrbes the Dannville (VA) Fire Department fire station project and some of the challenges that accompanied the design.

For the second night in a row, fire erupted at the vacant Colonial Motel in Lakewood. West Pierce Fire said the one-story motel at 12117 Pacific Highway SW was not safe for firefighters to enter Tuesday night and that crews were taking defensive measures to keep the fire in check. Firefighters put out a blaze at the same motel on Monday night.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2017 7:09:14 AM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13

An improperly extinguished firework is believed to be the cause of a two-alarm fire early Wednesday morning in Renton. The call came in at about 1:30 a.m. for a home in the 15700 block of SE 168th St. According to fire officials, a firework was improperly disposed in a recycling bin in the back of a home there, causing it to reignite and spread to the house.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2017 6:31:46 AM - SOURCE: seattlepi.com

A 14-year-old boy, who took his parents' SUV for a joyride to get fireworks, wound up accidentally torching the vehicle outside the family's home Tuesday morning. Firefighters were called to a home on S. 122nd St. in the Skyway area for a vehicle fire around 9:45 a.m. According to the King County Sheriff's office, the boy took the family's SUV without permission, picked up some friends, went to buy fireworks to celebrate the 4th of July the returned home.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2017 6:31:45 AM - SOURCE: seattlepi.com