Rigo Landeros, Fillmore's fire chief, assistant city manager and acting public works director, committed suicide this month while on duty in his city car, officials confirmed this week. Landeros, 51, shot himself in the head in his fire chief's car on a rural section of Goodenough Road on Jan. 7, Ventura County sheriff's, coroner's and Fillmore officials said in response to inquiries from The Star.
- PUB DATE: 1/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Ventura County Star

As the Fire Department Safety Officers Association’s (FDSOA) apparatus symposium concluded, its annual safety forum opened with an overlap presentation by Gordon Graham, a long-time champion of public safety responders. For more than three hours, Graham educated and entertained firefighters from all over the country with a simple, yet profound message focused on risk management and how firefighters can better protect themselves.
- PUB DATE: 1/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse

Fire tore through a Yakima home Thursday evening, leaving the house damaged and two dogs missing and feared dead. The fire was reported just before 8 p.m. at 200 W. Bartlett Place. Firefighters said they arrived to find an active fire that could have spread to engulf the whole house. They were able to extinguish the flames within minutes, but not before the blaze caused what firefighters called “significant” damage to the home.
- PUB DATE: 1/28/2016 10:45:43 PM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic

Fire tore through a Yakima home Thursday evening, leaving the house damaged and two dogs missing and feared dead. The fire was reported just before 8 p.m. at 200 W. Bartlett Place. Firefighters said they arrived to find an active fire that could have spread to engulf the whole house. They were able to extinguish the flames within minutes, but not before the blaze caused what firefighters called “significant” damage to the home.
- PUB DATE: 1/28/2016 10:45:43 PM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic

A Kennewick woman was able to rescue her husband from the Columbia River after he fell off a kayak into the chilly water while duck hunting in Finley. Justin and Melody Priest decided to test their luck Thursday morning at a new hunting spot downriver from Sandvik Special Metals off Straight Bank Road.
- PUB DATE: 1/28/2016 10:10:59 PM - SOURCE: Tri-City herald