It’s often only seconds that stand in the way of a family’s home burning to the ground or a gunman firing off more rounds in a crowded mall. Precious seconds are lost if firefighters have to race downstairs from a sleeping dorm to jump into a fire engine. Or a patrol officer has been called off the streets to clear a restroom and then wait outside the door for a man on trial at City Hall.
- PUB DATE: 6/18/2016 1:45:58 AM - SOURCE: Tukwila Reporter

The Union Pacific oil train that derailed June 3 in Mosier, Oregon, rolled into the Port of Tacoma Sunday with little notice, despite the intense scrutiny its wreck, spill and fire attracted to the expanding practice of shipping crude oil by rail through the Columbia River gorge and the greater Pacific Northwest.
- PUB DATE: 6/18/2016 1:44:51 AM - SOURCE: Tacoma News Tribune

Firefighters rushed to a call of a fire and explosions at a Kennewick home late Thursday night. It happened around 9:20 p.m. Officers say they responded to reports of a large shed on fire, an explosion, and an unconscious woman lying down by the shed. The 50-year-old woman was uncooperative, and transported to Trios.
- PUB DATE: 6/17/2016 6:38:06 AM - SOURCE: KEPR-TV CBS 19

Firefighters rushed to a call of a fire and explosions at a Kennewick home late Thursday night. It happened around 9:20 p.m. Officers say they responded to reports of a large shed on fire, an explosion, and an unconscious woman lying down by the shed. The 50-year-old woman was uncooperative, and transported to Trios.
- PUB DATE: 6/17/2016 6:38:06 AM - SOURCE: KEPR-TV CBS 19