When a wildfire is rolling toward a house built with a cedar shake roof, surrounded by decorative juniper up to the windowsills, and the only access road is overgrown and narrow, firefighters will likely skip it. “People think that we’re going to save their house,” said Paul Tester, Southwest Washington’s fire training coordinator at the state Department of Natural Resources.
- PUB DATE: 9/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian

Nampa Fire Dept. Chief Karl Malott is in serious condition after a crash on Interstate 84 near Sand Hollow Saturday afternoon. Idaho State Police say the Harley-Davidson motorcycle operated by Malott, 53, rear-ended a red sedan on the eastbound side of I-84. The impact threw Malott off of his motorcycle.
- PUB DATE: 9/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVB-TV

An FDNY battalion chief was killed and several others — including six police officers and nine other firefighters — were injured when a marijuana-growing operation inside a Bronx house exploded early Tuesday, officials and sources said. Michael Fahy of Battalion 19, a 17-year member of the FDNY, was struck in the head by part of the roof that blew off the private home at 300 W.
- PUB DATE: 9/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post

Indianapolis (IN) Fire Department pumpers (five). Saber FR cabs and chassis; Cummins ISL9 450-hp engines; Hale Qmax-XS 2,000-gpm pumps.

Firefighters were able to keep a fire that destroyed a pole shelter and barn from spreading to a home west of La Center on Monday evening. Firefighters responded to the fire at 35107 N.W. 32nd Ave. around 5:30 p.m. “When they arrived, they found a fully involved outbuilding, and fire was being transmitted to this huge barn,” Clark County Fire & Rescue Division Chief Tim Dawdy said.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2016 9:06:35 PM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian