The origin of a fatal motel fire in Newport came from a ground-level room but the incident killed four guests on the second floor, police said in an update Monday morning. The fire, which ignited before 6 a.m. at the City Center Motel, killed two people from Portland and two from Springfield, Newport police Lt.
- PUB DATE: 8/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Portland Oregonian

For almost three years now, Cindy Schuenke has had a court order demanding that she be reinstated as a firefighter with the Community Fire Protection District in north St. Louis County. The order makes it clear the district is to give the Pacific woman, 52, back pay to Aug. 9, 2009, when the fire district’s board illegally fired her.
- PUB DATE: 8/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A former Oatman firefighter was arrested Sunday when he tried to help efforts to put out a fire but refused orders to stand down. Jonathan Bradley Blake, 33, of Oatman, was arrested on suspicion of obstructing governmental operations, according to Mohave County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Trish Carter.
- PUB DATE: 8/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mohave Daily News

“A crash of thunder and a lightning bolt hit and it shook everything up around here,” said Mike Feil, neighbor. Caught on camera, a house goes up in flames after it’s hit by lightning. It happened during yesterday (Sunday) morning’s round of thunder and lightning. Neighbors say all of sudden, they bear a ‘boom’ then saw flames.
- PUB DATE: 8/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: klewtv

A resident ignited a small fire in a Centralia apartment while trying to kill cockroaches with a homemade flamethrower, fire officials said. Fire crews responded to the scene, in the 300 block of North Tower Avenue, on Monday morning after receiving a report of a commercial structure fire. By the time firefighters arrived, the resident had managed to extinguish the flames.
- PUB DATE: 8/8/2016 9:00:18 PM - SOURCE: KOMO News