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

AUDIO: An Albuquerque firefighter could be in trouble for what he said to a 911 caller after a 17-year-old was shot at a party. The firefighter then proceeded to hang up on the caller as Jaydon Chavez-Silver was dying. Chavez-Silver was shot and killed during a party in the Heights back on June 26. He had only been there for five minutes when someone started shooting at the home.
- PUB DATE: 7/28/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: krqe news 13 Albuquerque

The San Bernardino Board of Supervisors said it will move to authorize a $75,000 reward for information leading up to the arrest and conviction of the operators of drones that hampered recent firefighting efforts. Officials said the presence of drones within the same airspace as firefighting aircraft who were responding to recent fires forced the planes to land.
- PUB DATE: 7/28/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNBC-TV NBC 4 Los Angeles