Emergency officials say there have been more reports of people walking on the icy surfaces of lakes, ponds, and rivers since temperatures have dropped below freezing. The Walla Walla County District 5 Fire Department was joined by the Pasco Fire Department and the Columbia Basin Dive Rescue team for to practice dive rescue training in a frozen pond.
- PUB DATE: 2/7/2017 8:12:06 PM - SOURCE: KAPP-TV Yakima

A Pierce County Sheriff's deputy is hospitalized in stable condition after his patrol car was hit head-on in Parkland Tuesday afternoon. Investigators said the crash happened around around 3:30 p.m. on Tule Lake Road S. near Washington High School. They said the driver of the truck veered into oncoming traffic to try and get around another car.
- PUB DATE: 2/7/2017 5:52:35 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

There's a new weather-related concern Tuesday. Businesses and homes are covered with snow, and if that load is too heavy to bear, a collapse is a very real possibility. In Issaquah, 14-year-old Natalie Rapier and her family are pretty familiar with snow -- but not the kind that falls in inches. “We used to get like 3 feet in Indiana,” she told us.
- PUB DATE: 2/7/2017 5:03:15 PM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7