VIDEO/PHOTOS: It's not often you get to go one-on-one in a water fight with first responders. Today, that's exactly what kids in Yakima did for a good cause. Police and fire departments across the valley showed up for the second annual Cop and Fire on Top event. Kids got to test out their aim with squirt guns and firefighters didn't hold back either, pouring whole buckets of water on each other before heading back to the station.
- PUB DATE: 6/25/2023 10:49:52 AM - SOURCE: KIMA-TV CBS/CW+ 29 Yakima

Firefighters are trying to locate the person who may have been involved in a vehicle fire in Airway Heights. On Saturday, firefighters with Spokane County Fire District 10, the Airway Heights Fire Department and the Airway Heights Police Department responded to a vehicle fire at 1:30 a.m., where three vehicles and a building were involved.
- PUB DATE: 6/25/2023 4:24:39 AM - SOURCE: KREM-TV CBS 2 Spokane

The Lake Sutherland fire west of Port Angeles was determined to be 41 percent contained on Thursday with containment lines almost entirely surrounding the fire area, according to the Western Washington Type 3 Incident Management Team, the interagency group which assumed command of firefighting operations on Monday.
- PUB DATE: 6/23/2023 10:30:00 AM - SOURCE: Peninsula Daily News Online - Metered SIte

An intense fire erupted at a rubbish yard and spread into commercial-residential buildings, sending a thick plume of smoke billowing into the sky in downtown Los Angeles Thursday afternoon. LAFD crews responded near San Pedro and Seventh streets around 3:10 p.m. Nearly 150 firefighters battled the massive commercial fire near Skid Row.
- PUB DATE: 6/23/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has released a new report, “Fatal Firefighter Injuries in the U.S. in 2022”, which showed a total of 96 on-duty U.S. firefighter fatalities in 2022. Of these deaths, 51 were volunteer firefighters, 38 were career firefighters, six were contractors for federal or state land management agencies, and one was a full-time federal land management employee.
- PUB DATE: 6/23/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sierra Sun Times