Pullman Fire Chief Mike Heston said approximately half of the more than 3,000 calls his department responded to last year were to Washington State University and the College Hill area. Heston addressed the increase in calls and various other challenges and changes happening with the Pullman Fire Department at a League of Women Voters brown bag meeting Thursday in Pullman.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2016 9:51:52 AM - SOURCE: Spokane Spokesman-Review

Pullman Fire Chief Mike Heston said approximately half of the more than 3,000 calls his department responded to last year were to Washington State University and the College Hill area. Heston addressed the increase in calls and various other challenges and changes happening with the Pullman Fire Department at a League of Women Voters brown bag meeting Thursday in Pullman.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2016 9:51:52 AM - SOURCE: Spokane Spokesman-Review

A firefighter was killed while responding to a patient with a seizure Friday morning in Pulaski County, a spokesman with the sheriff's office said. The East Pulaski firefighter, whose name was not immediately released, responded to a report on Dortch Loop Road outside North Little Rock around 5 a.m.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NWAOnline - Northwest Arkansas News

Though wearing an air pack, Mount Marion Fire Department Capt. Jack Rose inhaled “superheated gases” and suffered “irreversible respiratory failure,” causing his death while fighting a house fire, town police said Thursday. Rose, 19, died Dec. 19, 2015, after going into distress while helping fight a chimney fire in a home at 11 Fel Qui Road in the Centerville Fire District.
- PUB DATE: 1/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the daily freeman