If you're going to pull a phone scam on an unsuspecting victim by pretending to be a firefighter, make sure your victim isn't a deputy chief. That's what happened recently to Scott Schwartz, deputy chief of the West Haven Fire Department. "It was probably just a random thing," recalled Schwartz. "The number came up and they decided to try me but it didn't work very well.
- PUB DATE: 1/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fox 61 Connecticut

It's a Christmas tradition with airborne gifts: They get stuck in trees. Or fly astray. Whether model airplanes, Frisbees, kites or what have you, someone inevitably lands one in a tree. As drones – small lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles and the successor to the modest remote controlled model airplane – become more popular and more people receive them as gifts, the air might be getting a little more crowded.
- PUB DATE: 1/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: gloucester times

Gracie the horse, who was rescued after falling through ice in Bonney Lake, struggled to survive Monday. Owners Richard and Julie Taylor believe Gracie, a 25-year-old Arabian mare, was coming in to eat on their Bonney Lake property Sunday morning and likely slipped on a small patch of ice and fell into a pond, they said.
- PUB DATE: 1/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: komo news

Gracie the horse, who was rescued after falling through ice in Bonney Lake, struggled to survive Monday. Owners Richard and Julie Taylor believe Gracie, a 25-year-old Arabian mare, was coming in to eat on their Bonney Lake property Sunday morning and likely slipped on a small patch of ice and fell into a pond, they said.
- PUB DATE: 1/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: komo news

2015 was the busiest year to date for the Richland Fire Department. They went on over 6,300 calls which is up more than 9 percent from 2014. Battalion Chief James Hempstead said fires were not even the cause for most of the calls they went on. "The majority of that call volume historically has come from the medical demands of the community," said Hempstead.
- PUB DATE: 1/4/2016 8:49:18 PM - SOURCE: KAPP-TV Yakima