Menu

WFC News

Posted: May 25, 2016

Big Bend Community College air rescue facility designed to test firefighters

By their very nature emergencies don’t follow the routine script. Duane Kling, Moses Lake, an instructor for the Air Rescue Firefighter program at Big Bend Community College, used the example of the door on a large commercial aircraft. Those things are meticulously engineered, to the point where a 120-pound flight attendant can open an 800-pound door, he said.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2016 2:46:11 AM - SOURCE: Columbia Basin Herald
Read more
Posted: May 25, 2016

Big Bend Community College air rescue facility designed to test firefighters

By their very nature emergencies don’t follow the routine script. Duane Kling, Moses Lake, an instructor for the Air Rescue Firefighter program at Big Bend Community College, used the example of the door on a large commercial aircraft. Those things are meticulously engineered, to the point where a 120-pound flight attendant can open an 800-pound door, he said.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2016 2:46:11 AM - SOURCE: Columbia Basin Herald
Read more
Posted: May 25, 2016

Burn pile catches Custer farm shack on fire during demolition

A dilapidated farm building in the Custer area caught fire from a nearby burn pile as it was being demolished Tuesday afternoon, May 24. North Whatcom and Lynden firefighters responded to the fire at 2424 Zell Road just before 3 p.m., said Assistant Fire Chief Robert Spinner. When firefighters arrived, the 20-by-50-foot storage shack was engulfed.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2016 2:32:04 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald
Read more
Posted: May 25, 2016

Burn pile catches Custer farm shack on fire during demolition

A dilapidated farm building in the Custer area caught fire from a nearby burn pile as it was being demolished Tuesday afternoon, May 24. North Whatcom and Lynden firefighters responded to the fire at 2424 Zell Road just before 3 p.m., said Assistant Fire Chief Robert Spinner. When firefighters arrived, the 20-by-50-foot storage shack was engulfed.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2016 2:32:04 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald
Read more
Posted: May 25, 2016

New report cites missteps that led to deaths of two Kansas City firefighters

Seven months after two firefighters died fighting a fire on Independence Boulevard, the Kansas City Fire Department produced a report on the deaths and a set of recommendations to improve firefighter safety. Kansas City firefighters John Mesh and Larry Leggio died when a brick wall collapsed and fell on them during the Oct.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kansas city star
Read more
RSS
First72697270727172727274727672777278Last

Theme picker

Search News Articles