A couple local firefighters have finally made it back home after first going to the Snake River Fire in the southeastern part of Washington then to the Fletcher Road Fire near Walla Walla and then to the Palouse Falls Fire on Sunday. We talked with two fire chiefs from our area on the fire season so far and how it's been different from last year.
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Downtown Bellevue is full of tall, modern and new buildings. Not far away, the city's fire department says it is saddled with buildings that are too old, too small and in need of new funding. Recently, Bellevue City Council approved a 20-year, $120 million ballot measure to give all nine fire stations seismic upgrades, expand to allow larger fire trucks and build a new facility downtown.
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Two off-duty members of the Walla Walla Fire Department, Lt. Eric Wood and Engineer Bryan McIntire, visited the Conconully, Washington, area, which is 20 miles northwest of Omak in the north central part of the state. They were with Eric’s father, Dan Wood, who is the Assistant Fire Chief in Omak, when a call came over Dan’s radio reporting that a 73-year-old man went into cardiac arrest at a nearby restaurant.
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Froggy's Fog is donating the use of two SG-1300 machines along with Extreme Density training fluid for the Fire Rescue International conference being held Aug. 17 - 20, 2016 in San Antonio, Texas to simulate a warehouse fire during the conference's High Impact Training segment.

Capt. Rex Strickland of Fairfax County, Va. Fire and Rescue, who is leading the High Impact Training says, "The smoke machines will be used outside of the loading dock where we are simulating an entrance to a large warehouse fire. We will have an engine staged there with a handline nozzle going through the door where the smoke is originating and a battalion chief truck will be positioned to simulate a command post. The smoke is being used to make the simulation as contextual as possible."

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Fire Rescue International, the annual conference of the International Association of Fire Chiefs, has provided senior-level leadership training to fire chiefs for 140 years. The IAFC represents the world's leading experts in the first responder community. For more information about IAFC, visit www.iafc.org.