The Columbia Fire Department is mourning the death of one of their own when a 25-year-veteran firefighter died Sunday after falling ill earlier in July. Fire Chief Aubrey Jenkins said Firefighter Tyron Weston, 51, fell ill on July 3 and was on his way to recovery when he died Sunday morning. Jenkins said Weston has been a member of the Columbia Fire Department since August 1990.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the state

VIDEO: A Lacey coffee stand was set on fire last week and the arsonist was caught on camera as he set the fire. The arson occurred on Wednesday at about 4 a.m. at the Bongiorno Brew Espresso stand at 4914 Lacey Blvd. SE. The man rode up on a bicycle, shattered a window, lit a prepared incendiary device and tossed it inside, according to police.
- PUB DATE: 7/28/2015 11:09:41 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7

A puppy named Bonita is credited with alerting a Spokane Valley family to a fire early Monday that heavily damaged their apartment complex. Bonita started barking around 9 a.m. when a row of garages at the Broadway Square Apartments, 11910 E. Broadway Ave., caught fire. The racket alerted the dog’s owner, Tara Peters, who was at home with her 4-year-old son, Anthony.
- PUB DATE: 7/28/2015 12:42:38 AM - SOURCE: Spokane Spokesman-Review

As Yogi Berra would say, it was déjà vu all over again for Yakima firefighters. For the second time in less than a week, firefighters were simultaneously contending with a brush fire and two house fires Sunday night that pushed the city’s firefighters to the limit. Last Wednesday, close to 100 firefighters were kept busy at simultaneous fires that destroyed a home on South 25th Avenue, damaged another house on Conestoga Boulevard and scorched about 5 acres off Pecks Canyon that threatened several homes.
- PUB DATE: 7/28/2015 12:39:44 AM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic

An FDNY recruit is getting a third chance to pass the training academy after collecting top firefighter pay for a year in desk jobs, sources told The Post. Choeurlyne Doirin-Holder, 39 — one of four women among 320 current probies in training — failed midway through a Fire Academy class in 2013, and returned to her former job as an EMT.
- PUB DATE: 7/28/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: new york post