Neil Kayser knows the damage a wildfire can cause livestock operations. Kayser, a fourth-generation rancher from the Goldendale area, lost several head of cattle in last year’s Cougar Creek fire near Mount Adams. He’s also bypassed roadblocks to save his livestock from advancing fires. “A cow, to us, is like a factory,” Kayser said in a phone interview last week.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: yakima herald

A man stabbed two San Diego firefighters who were tending to an intoxicated man at an East Village trolley station last year, a prosecutor said Monday, but a defense attorney said his client was trying to help the drunk man and stabbed the firefighters in self-defense after being pushed over a bench by a fire captain.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSWB-TV Fox 5 San Diego

VIDEO - Eight firefighters were injured when the front of a burning townhome collapsed onto them. Firefighters were called to the 3-alarm fire on Churubusco Lane about 1 a.m. Monday. When they arrived, they found the townhome completely engulfed in flames. Video from the scene shows firefighters battling the fire from the front of the home when they front wall collapsed on top of them.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: nbc washington

The town of Georgia's fire department is now seven members short. One firefighter quit and six others were asked to turn in their equipment Friday afternoon. The firefighter flap started at a meeting last October when members of the department were asked to sign a new confidentiality agreement. "We, in October, were told we had to sign a policy that we could only speak about certain things in the fire service that we find out about in the fire service if we have permission from our chief," said Chris Gonyeau, former firefighter.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCAX-TV CBS 3

Neil Kayser knows the damage a wildfire can cause livestock operations. Kayser, a fourth-generation rancher from the Goldendale area, lost several head of cattle in last year’s Cougar Creek fire near Mount Adams. He’s also bypassed roadblocks to save his livestock from advancing fires. “A cow, to us, is like a factory,” Kayser said in a phone interview last week.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: yakima herald