A woman and Spokane Police officer spoke out Sunday about an incredible rescue the two were involved in Friday evening. Spokane Police Officer Tim Schwering was first on scene to a vehicle fire where a woman, Kim Novak, was trapped inside. Officer Schwering said he was "glad he was there at the time.
- PUB DATE: 1/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KREM

BC 23 arrived and reported a two-story ordinary structure with fire on the second floor. He ordered one line to the fire floor and one on the first floor with the truck company opening the roof. 

 

A girl is dead and her mother injured following a house fire in Spokane Valley early Sunday morning. Spokane Valley Fire Department firefighters were called to a fire at 10410 E. Springfield Ave. at about 3 a.m. They received reports of a person possibly trapped in the basement, according to a fire department news release.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2017 5:09:51 PM - SOURCE: Spokesman Review

Crews near Twisp were working to protect homes on a dead-end road when they were overrun by a wildfire in 2015. Three U.S. Forest Service firefighters died that day, leading to a first-of-its-kind examination of the event and, potentially, new guidelines about the lengths to which crews should go to protect rural homes.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2017 8:13:52 AM - SOURCE: Spokane Spokesman-Review

It’s a message no homeowner wants to hear. The Mukilteo Fire Department sent letters this past summer to about a dozen addresses on the private stretch of waterfront at Naketa Beach. The letters said that firefighters no longer will drive their trucks into the neighborhood. That’s a decision likely to delay emergency response.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2017 2:06:26 AM - SOURCE: Everett Herald - Metered Site