A 5-year-old boy died New Year’s Day and four other people believed to be from the same Federal Way family were seriously injured when a tree fell on a white SUV travelling east around Lake Crescent on U.S. Highway 101, Clallam Fire District No. 2 Chief Sam Phillips said. Highway 101 was blocked in both directions Sunday afternoon and into Sunday evening, with traffic being diverted to state Route 112, after the 18- 20-inch-diameter tree fell on the vehicle, which was reported to authorities at 2:16 p.
- PUB DATE: 1/1/2017 6:59:03 PM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

PHOTOS - Police are investigating a crash involving a Seattle fire engine and a ladder truck that sent eight firefighters to the hospital Sunday morning, damaged the storefront of a massage business and smashed the ladder truck so badly that it’s out of service. Alice Kim, spokeswoman for the Seattle Fire Department, said the trucks were responding to an automatic fire alarm when the crash occurred just before 8 a.
- PUB DATE: 1/1/2017 4:38:49 PM - SOURCE: Seattle Times - Metered Site

A fire at the Parklane Apartments in north Vancouver Friday night consumed one unit and displaced 31 people. Clark County Fire District Six reported to the scene at about 8 p.m. to see thick smoke pouring out of one of the upstairs apartments and two people and a dog on an upstairs balcony. Crews put up a ladder and rescued the people and their dog.
- PUB DATE: 12/31/2016 1:50:50 AM - SOURCE: Northwest Cable News

Crews have found the bodies of four people at the scene of a plane crash near the northern Hood Canal area of Dabob Bay, state Department of Transportation officials said Friday. The plane wreckage was spotted Friday morning in a heavily wooded ravine where crews had been searching for a missing private plane that disappeared Thursday evening.
- PUB DATE: 12/30/2016 3:39:37 PM - SOURCE: KEPR-TV CBS 19

Spokane Valley Fire Department say they responded to a residential structure fire at 7:30 a.m. Friday morning. The homeowner was outside shoveling snow and says when he went back inside, he noticed a light fixture in the kitchen flickering. When he removed the bulb, he says smoke poured into the room, so he called 911.
- PUB DATE: 12/30/2016 3:37:39 PM - SOURCE: KAYU-TV MyFox Spokane