Sunday night, the Tahitian Inn in Pasco off of West Lewis Street in one of the rooms there. On Monday we learned the old man was smoking a cigarette near his oxygen tank which is what started the fire. When we posted the story to Facebook last night a woman commented on the post saying her husband and his cousin helped get the man out of the home and away from the flames.
- PUB DATE: 1/18/2016 10:28:15 PM - SOURCE: kndu

Town of Palmyra (WI) Fire Department, pumper. Commander cab and chassis; Cummins ISL9 450-hp engine

Bellingham police say an arsonist may be targeting a business that serves people in need. Three mornings in a row last week someone has lit dumpsters and then a wall on fire behind the Bellingham Goodwill. Hermina Lolkena had just finished a shopping spree there when we caught up with her. She told us she got a heck of a deal.
- PUB DATE: 1/18/2016 8:55:51 PM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7

Bellingham police say an arsonist may be targeting a business that serves people in need. Three mornings in a row last week someone has lit dumpsters and then a wall on fire behind the Bellingham Goodwill. Hermina Lolkena had just finished a shopping spree there when we caught up with her. She told us she got a heck of a deal.
- PUB DATE: 1/18/2016 8:55:51 PM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7

Six fire departments under Grady County Emergency Management and the Amber Fire Department responded to the fire at the fracking site on Highway 39 run by Continental Resources.

Grady County officials said at least 40 sets of bunker gear and 3,000 feet of hose were soaked in crude oil and left unusable after battling the fire.

"It's a hard hit," said Mike Norman, fire chief for the Amber Fire Department. "Everything that was on that site that was going up in the air or that was below our feet, it was on us."

Noman said the Amber Fire Department sustained at least $20,000 worth of equipment damage.

"It hurts the pocketbook," Norman said. "We don't have the money, nor the funding, to come back and replenish this."

Dale Thompson, director of Grady County Emergency Management, said the organization is working with Continental Resources to get help for the fire departments.

Thompson said the fire departments will have to revert back to their old gear until they can get replacements for the gear that was damaged. Fire departments told KOCO that the damaged equipment will not impact fire response times.

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