You’ve seen it in the movies and on TV: Someone hurt in a car wreck is strapped to a rigid backboard and rushed to the hospital by ambulance or aboard a rescue helicopter. That’s how firefighters, paramedics and others have approached patients with suspected spinal injury since the nation’s modern fire-based EMS system began some 50 years ago.
- PUB DATE: 3/13/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald

If they're looking for someone to star in the next Marvel superhero movie, Missoula firefighter Andy Drobeck might be a good candidate. Drobeck showed his "superhuman" athleticism and big heart for a good cause for the seventh year in a row as he zipped to the number one finish in the Scott Firefighter Stairclimb in Seattle.
- PUB DATE: 3/13/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPAX

Lawrence (IN) Fire Department pumper. Enforcer cab and chassis; Cummins, ISL9, 450-hp engine; Waterous CSU 2,000-gpm single-stage pump

 

Investigators say a generator, stored inside a shed, caused a fire in Lynnwood Sunday morning displacing five people. “There’s never been a fire right here,” said Leon Bennett who has lived on Madison Way for 40 years. However this morning, he told Q13 News he woke up to massive flames and a large plume of smoke coming from the house next door.
- PUB DATE: 3/12/2017 9:35:26 PM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13

Snohomish County deputies on Friday night were investigating a tragic accident in which a large tree toppled over, crushing and killing a 17-year-old girl who was hiking with friends in Meadowdale Beach Park in Edmonds. According to Snohomish County sheriff’s deputies, a 17-year-old girl was walking with a group of friends off the main trail when the tree fell.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2017 10:17:37 PM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13