Ever since 31-year-old Nicole Clardy Mittendorff’s cream-colored Mini Cooper was found Saturday in Shenandoah National Park near the Whiteoak Canyon Trail, the search for her has focused near that popular trail. Now the National Park Service has closed four other areas in the Whiteoak Canyon area — Limberlost, Crescent Rocks, Cedar Run, and Cedar Run Link Trail — in connection with the search for the career Fairfax County firefighter/paramedic, who was last heard from Wednesday.
- PUB DATE: 4/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTOP-AM 1500 Washington

Earlier this year, a photo of a woman breastfeeding her son went viral on the Internet. The photo depicted not just any woman, but a woman dressed in fire turnout gear, holding the naked infant to her mostly concealed breast. The image was part of a series by an El Paso photographer who was depicting women breastfeeding at work.
- PUB DATE: 4/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1

Two young children were killed in a fire at a Lumpkin County home on Monday. The flames engulfed the home on Rider Road Spur NE, just off of Highway 9, between Dawsonville and Dahlonega. Lumpkin County officials confirmed that two children, ages 1 and 2, were taken to North Side Hospital in Cumming and Chestatee Regional Hospital Dahlonega, Ga.
- PUB DATE: 4/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIA-TV NBC 11 Atlanta

Washington can continue state programs, pay employee salaries and begin some construction projects over the next 14 months under operating and capital budgets signed Monday by Gov. Jay Inslee – although they’re a bit different than the spending plans approved by the Legislature. The approved budgets have $189.
- PUB DATE: 4/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Spokesman Review

Twenty-three new firefighters will pump up volunteer rolls, but they probably will fall short of the manpower North Olympic Peninsula officials say they need. Having completed firefighter training at the Volunteer Training Academy in Carlsborg, the new recruits soon will start filling volunteer shortages in Clallam districts 2, 3 and 4, and the Port Angeles Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 4/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: peninsula daily news