An explosion and fire injured a Bellingham man and displaced four other tenants of a Sehome neighborhood house about 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17. “There were reports of butane containers involved,” said Battalion Chief Cary Gustafson of the Bellingham Fire Department. “When we arrived, the patient was outside and we had a very small fire on the second floor landing.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2016 1:59:05 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald

PHOTO - Two Shreveport firefighters were taken to the hospital with minor injuries early Monday afternoon after their fire truck rolled over on Kings Hwy. It happened just after 12 p.m. near Linwood Ave. It was not immediately clear what caused the ladder truck to wind up on its side, but Shreveport Fire Chief Scott Wolverton said they were responding to an EMS call when it happened.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSLA-TV Shreveport News 12

The Kansas Court of Appeals has ruled an area woman cannot be prosecuted for drugs found during a warrantless search of her purse by a Shawnee Heights firefighter. Lt. Brian Dodds responded to a home east of Topeka on Sept. 19, 2014, after the homeowner complained a woman she didn’t know was showering in her basement.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Topeka Capital-Journal

Ten months after hiring an outside consultant to review staffing in the city’s fire department, the Providence City Council is refusing to release the much-anticipated findings from the report. Records reviewed by Eyewitness News show Massachusetts-based MMA Consulting Group was paid $37,600 on June 22, but the report remains in “draft form,” according to the city’s law department.
- PUB DATE: 10/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPRI-TV Providence 12