Chattanooga firefighters battled a large apartment fire last night at the Hidden Creek Apartments on East Brainerd Road. An off-duty Chattanooga firefighter captured a baby after it was dropped from the third floor by the mother, according to Bruce Garner, fire department spokesman. The firefighter was identified as Lieutenant Vernon Lane, with Ladder 1 at Station 1.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chattanooga Times Free Press

A firefighter was shot by a Bloods gang member with a long rap sheet who set a Staten Island house on fire Friday morning when US marshals showed up to serve him a warrant, sources said. Authorities surrounded the house at 15 Destiny Court after the gunman – identified as 38-year old Garland Tyree – continued shooting, sources said.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: new york post

Looking at the hopeful faces, crowded in a circle in Ridgefield Public Library on Thursday, you'd never know it. But Clark County Fire & Rescue Battalion Chief Tim Dawdy believes, for kids these days, life in the classroom is harder than ever. There's more work, and not everyone learns the same way.
- PUB DATE: 8/13/2015 8:10:21 PM - SOURCE: Northwest Cable News

Investigators spent all day at Pacific Steel Thursday and are still not sure where the canister filled with the leaked chlorine gas came from. Several agencies responded to help investigate Thursday, including 26 people from the Fairchild Airforce Base. Pacific Steel representatives said they do not accept any chemicals, nuclear waste, or paint into the facility, so investigators said they are still trying to determine how the cylinder got into the plant in the first place.
- PUB DATE: 8/13/2015 8:09:51 PM - SOURCE: Northwest Cable News

A fully loaded log truck spilled its load after a driver swerved to avoid an animal on U.S. Highway 101 west of Port Angeles on Thursday morning, the State Patrol said. A Port Angeles man driving another vehicle was treated and discharged from Olympic Medical Center after the wreck. Charles Simmon, 58, of Clallam Bay was not injured when he swerved to avoid a dog or deer in the eastbound lane between Laird and Dry Creek roads at about 6:28 a.
- PUB DATE: 8/13/2015 7:41:14 PM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News