A fire crew in Richland has four EMTs being monitored for the coronavirus after assisting with a patient for another medical call. Richland Fire Chief, Tom Huntington said the 4 EMTs have been self quarantined for about 6 days and are showing no signs of coronavirus symptoms. Responders were called to a patient's home originally to assist them with another medical condition, but as they responded the patient showed signs of the coronavirus.
- PUB DATE: 3/19/2020 8:41:50 PM - SOURCE: NBCRightNow.com

Sequim leaders have declared a State of Civil Emergency during what could become the last in-person meeting at the Sequim Civic Center for some time. Monday’s Sequim City Council meeting will be online only. City staff last Monday discussed with a room of about 20 people and four video callers that the declaration authorizes Sequim Police and city staff to minimize the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, from spreading in Sequim.
- PUB DATE: 3/19/2020 6:48:24 PM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

Inside a Seattle police warehouse just south of downtown, next to a bomb-squad truck and parking-enforcement vehicles, a 6-foot wide rectangle has been marked with yellow tape on the concrete floor. Inside the rectangle — the potential exposure area — an EMT in a hooded Tyvek suit with a filtered gas mask wields a long nasal swab, ready to take samples from drivers who pull into the warehouse but never leave their car.
- PUB DATE: 3/19/2020 6:47:16 PM - SOURCE: Seattle Times

A Burbank home is destroyed after firefighters say a child playing with a lighter started the fire. Around 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 19, firefighters got a call about a fire at 232 Ringhoff Rd. They got to the home and everyone had evacuated – two children, their mother and grandmother. The grandmother had minor burns and was sent to the hospital for possible smoke inhalation.
- PUB DATE: 3/19/2020 5:45:39 PM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

The COVID-19 virus has hit fire departments and agencies in other Western Washington cities from the Eastside, to the Puget Sound Fire Authority to Federal Way. To date, it has spared 125 personnel, among them 98 firefighters, who make up the Valley Regional Fire Authority, which provides fire and emergency services to the cities of Auburn, Pacific and Algona.
- PUB DATE: 3/19/2020 1:06:53 PM - SOURCE: Auburn Reporter