I followed news of the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting with one thing on my mind: Where was EMS? As Omar Mateen’s three-hour assault played out, we now know, the 80 medics on the scene were kept more than 100 yards from the club, outside what’s known as the “hot zone.” Many of the injured were transported to hospitals in pickup trucks.
- PUB DATE: 8/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Washington Post

The smoke from the Suncrest Fire provided an eerie backdrop, the visible evidence of a fire that has scorched 496 acres northeast of Leavenworth. The wind helped it spread quickly and then it began a steady march up the tinder dry hillside. It provided lots of hot, dirty work for some 300 firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 8/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kiro7

More than a week after the Spokane Complex Fire began, firefighters have the blaze almost completely contained. Monday morning, crews announced both parts of the wildfire – Wellesley and Yale Road – were essentially completely contained. The Wellesley Fire is 100 percent contained and the Yale Fire is 99 percent contained, up 4 percent from Sunday.
- PUB DATE: 8/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: krem

A Benton Fire District 1 support vehicle was heavily damaged Sunday when it was hit by an SUV while on its way to a collision scene, authorities said. Battalion Chief Donald J. Taylor was driving the truck, a 1999 Ford F250, which was marked and had its siren on and lights flashing, authorities said.
- PUB DATE: 8/28/2016 5:31:29 PM - SOURCE: Mid-Columbia Tri-City Herald