East Pierce Fire and Rescue crews were able to quickly extinguish a fire Monday morning that likely had been “burning for some time” in a construction office located in Bonney Lake’s Tehaleh planned residential community. Someone called 911 just before 5 a.m. to report the fire. Fire crews arrived 10 minutes later and forced their way into the building located at 153 Street East and 189th Avenue East.
- PUB DATE: 5/31/2016 1:46:18 AM - SOURCE: Tacoma News Tribune

East Pierce Fire and Rescue crews were able to quickly extinguish a fire Monday morning that likely had been “burning for some time” in a construction office located in Bonney Lake’s Tehaleh planned residential community. Someone called 911 just before 5 a.m. to report the fire. Fire crews arrived 10 minutes later and forced their way into the building located at 153 Street East and 189th Avenue East.
- PUB DATE: 5/31/2016 1:46:18 AM - SOURCE: Tacoma News Tribune

A wrong turn on the way home from Taco Bell changed Adam Thiel's life. It was 24 years ago when the then-19-year-old student at American University got lost returning to campus and passed a firehouse advertising free EMT lessons. Thiel, impressed by the emergency responders who rushed his father to the hospital when he was dying of cancer, signed up and never looked back.
- PUB DATE: 5/31/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: philly.com

New Syracuse firefighters will have to reside in the city for the first five years of their career under the terms of a three-year union contract ratified this week by firefighters. That's a first for Syracuse firefighters, who previously were exempt from residency requirements under state law. The state law, which exempts police, fire and sanitation workers, can be superseded by local collective bargaining agreements, said Paul Motondo, president of Local 280 of the International Association of Fire Fighters.
- PUB DATE: 5/31/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Syracuse Post-Standard & Syracuse.com

Police throughout the metro area expect this fall to start routinely calling for an ambulance to carry people suffering a mental health crisis to the hospital instead of handcuffing them in the back of a patrol car for the ride. The state has adopted new rules that allow for ambulance services to apply to provide secure transport for people suffering behavioral health problems.
- PUB DATE: 5/31/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the oregonian