First responders would have to complete a one-week class to carry guns on school property during emergencies under a bill in the South Carolina House of Representatives. The legislation also calls for school responders to foot the $593 bill for the course, which would include shoot/don't shoot training, as well as instruction on school safety protection, diffusing volatile situations and communicating with law enforcement.
- PUB DATE: 4/4/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Independent Mail

A woman suffered significant burns to her hands and arms as a result of a fire in east Vancouver in the Cascade Highlands neighborhood, Monday afternoon. Vancouver Fire Department spokesman Pete Adams said firefighters were first called to a report of a burn victim in need of help at Southeast 136th Avenue and Southeast Mill Plain Boulevard.
- PUB DATE: 4/3/2017 11:01:25 PM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian

Park Forest (IL) Fire Department rescue-pumper. Spartan Gladiator cab and chassis; Cummins ISL9 450-hp engine; Darley PSM 1,500-gpm pump.

A fire in the attic damaged four apartment units in Richland before it was extinguished on Monday. Richland firefighters were called at 3:38 p.m. to 1915 Hoxie Ave. after smoke was seen billowing out of the building, according to Fire Chief Tom Huntington. Flames damaged the attic and roof, and left the block of apartments structurally unsound.
- PUB DATE: 4/3/2017 9:37:09 PM - SOURCE: Mid-Columbia Tri-City Herald

Fairchild Air Force Base says groundwater that supplies nearby homes may have been contaminated by a fire-extinguishing foam that the Air Force stopped using last year after a recommendation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Air Force officials said Monday that the foam had been used at a former firefighter training site on the eastern edge of the base since 1970.
- PUB DATE: 4/3/2017 9:30:44 PM - SOURCE: Spokane Spokesman-Review