A few hours after a fatal New Year’s Eve shooting near Woodland, the Cowlitz Chaplaincy’s newest member was called out. On her first call as a chaplain, Caliatra Riesterer arrived at 4 a.m. and focused on the women at the scene, spending several hours with the 27-year-old victim’s mother. “It was a huge event,” said Tom Haan, executive director of the Chaplaincy.
- PUB DATE: 2/11/2016 2:14:05 AM - SOURCE: Longview Daily News

A few hours after a fatal New Year’s Eve shooting near Woodland, the Cowlitz Chaplaincy’s newest member was called out. On her first call as a chaplain, Caliatra Riesterer arrived at 4 a.m. and focused on the women at the scene, spending several hours with the 27-year-old victim’s mother. “It was a huge event,” said Tom Haan, executive director of the Chaplaincy.
- PUB DATE: 2/11/2016 2:14:05 AM - SOURCE: Longview Daily News

Starting Saturday, Feb. 6, and continuing for two more weekends, Eastside Firefighters will team up with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in their annual “Climb for a Cure” campaign. Firefighters will be raising funds, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each Saturday, Feb. 6 at the Issaquah Fred Meyer, Feb. 13 at the Sammamish Safeway and Feb.
- PUB DATE: 2/11/2016 2:09:26 AM - SOURCE: Snoqualmie Valley Record

Starting Saturday, Feb. 6, and continuing for two more weekends, Eastside Firefighters will team up with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in their annual “Climb for a Cure” campaign. Firefighters will be raising funds, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each Saturday, Feb. 6 at the Issaquah Fred Meyer, Feb. 13 at the Sammamish Safeway and Feb.
- PUB DATE: 2/11/2016 2:09:26 AM - SOURCE: Snoqualmie Valley Record

Almost three years after the deadliest day in the history of the Houston Fire Department, the families of four firefighters who battled a catastrophic hotel blaze have filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit over the department’s troubled digital radio system. As flames engulfed the Southwest Inn hotel on a hot day in May 2013, firefighters battling the five-alarm blaze also had to fight problems with their new radios.
- PUB DATE: 2/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHOU-TV CBS 11 Houston