A 100-year-old warehouse was destroyed early Tuesday after a massive fire tore through a city block in downtown Olympia. Fire officials say it's too early to say whether the two-alarm blaze may have been started by July Fourth fireworks. Crews responded to the fire, at State Avenue NE and Adams Street NE, at about 1:15 a.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2016 7:55:47 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

It remains the deadliest fire in Seattle's history. 32 people died when a B-29 prototype bomber crashed into the Frye Meatpacking Plant in the SoDo neighborhood. Among the dead was Luther Bonner, 23, a relatively new member of Seattle's firefighting ranks. He was killed after being overcome by gases released when the plant's refrigeration lines were severed.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2016 2:58:14 AM - SOURCE: Northwest Cable News

PHOTO - Authorities are trying to figure out who broke into the Smith Valley fire hall on Foys Lake Road late Saturday night or early Sunday morning and set a fire that caused massive damage. The fallout is expected to slow response to emergency calls in the area. Fire Chief D.C. Haas of the Smith Valley Fire Department said firefighters responded to the hall at around 11 a.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: daily interlake

When the first paramedics arrived on the scene of the Pulse nightclub shooting, they could still hear gunfire coming from inside the club. In active-shooting cases, recent federal guidelines call for medics to put on body armor and go into potentially dangerous situations alongside police officers when possible.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: orlando sentinel

A state appeals court ruled last week that City of Lockport firefighters are entitled to state arbitration on the issue of the reduction of staffing on each shift resulting from the abolition of the city’s ambulance service in September 2014. The Appellate Division of State Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld a December 2014 ruling by State Supreme Court Justice Frank Caruso that the city was not allowed to stop the arbitration sought by the firefighters union, but it emphasized that it was not taking sides in the dispute over whether the city was allowed by the union contract to cut staffing and do away with city ambulances.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: buffalo news