VIDEO/PHOTOS: Some Sandy Springs firefighters decided to go to the top of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite to do some training. As they rappelled down the 80-foot building, they made some new friends along the way. As they lowered themselves floor-by-floor, they would pause at the windows and wave to the tiny patients.
- PUB DATE: 2/28/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAGA-TV FOX 5 Atlanta

If you were in the Puget Sound region at the time, you felt it. Tuesday marks 22 years since the Nisqually earthquake shook the area. The 6.8 magnitude quake was centered about 11 miles northeast of Olympia and felt from Seattle to Grays Harbor. The earthquake struck the region at 10:54 a.m. on Feb.
- PUB DATE: 2/28/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

Yakima County has the highest rate of home fires in Washington state, according to the American Red Cross. They say they helped 23 individuals affected by four home fires in Yakima County during the week of Jan. 23. The Northwest Region of the American Red Cross has named Yakima their Home Fire Campaign signature city for 2023.
- PUB DATE: 2/28/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIMA-TV CBS/CW+ 29 Yakima

The Kennewick Fire Department says they are calling this a "teachable moment." This after a 12-year-old boy who apparently got a hold of a lighter and some papers and began experimenting with fire, which led to a blaze that heavily damaged a garage. This happened Sunday afternoon around 12:45pm off 40 North Kent Street, which is south of West Canal Drive.
- PUB DATE: 2/27/2023 1:56:00 PM - SOURCE: KONA-AM 610 Kennewick-Richland-Pasco

To Pat Hackett, CERT-certified volunteer, preparing for disaster is paramount. For the past eight years, she has put these words to test by volunteering countless hours educating the community of Mercer Island to do just that — prepare for not if, but when, disaster strikes. In 2015, Hackett read an article in the New Yorker, “The Really Big One,” that discussed how a large earthquake could potentially destroy a sizable portion of the Pacific Northwest.
- PUB DATE: 2/27/2023 11:07:00 AM - SOURCE: Mercer Island Reporter