Personal fireworks are believed to have caused $824,500 in property damage across Clark County during this month's Fourth of July festivities. Authorities also handed out $11,750 in fines to people for shooting off fireworks outside of allowed times. Of the 46 citations the Vancouver Fire Marshal issued, only one was for an illegal firework, Lead Deputy Fire Marshal Chris Drone said Monday.
- PUB DATE: 7/14/2015 8:29:51 PM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian

Snohomish County Fire District No. 5 firefighters celebrated last week as their brand new fire engine was blessed into service. The blessing was followed by a push-in ceremony, during which firefighters and firefighter recruits pushed the new engine into the apparatus bay by hand. The event was held at 6 p.
- PUB DATE: 7/14/2015 1:22:08 PM - SOURCE: Monroe Monitor

The Mount Adams Complex of small fires in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest was reported to be 83 percent contained this morning. The Spiral Fire, which burned an acre of timber in the Big Lava Bed north of Willard, has been put out. Crews are mopping up hotspots on the 63-acre Riley Fire, one of the small fires of the Mount Adams Complex on the west side of Mount Adams Wilderness.
- PUB DATE: 7/14/2015 10:45:01 AM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian

Yakima County Fire Officials say just after midnight on Tuesday, about 850 bales of hay caught fire threatening a nearby house and shop. When firefighters got to the scene at Hidden Valley Dairy on Bond Road just south of Mabton, they say 90% of the haystack was on fire. At first, crews decided to focus on protecting the house and shop that were less than 50 ft.
- PUB DATE: 7/14/2015 7:45:40 AM - SOURCE: NBCRightNow.com

There is no shortage of cringe-worthy things we've heard and said. The things we say reflect what we are thinking. It may be only what we are thinking at the moment and not represent our deeply held thoughts and beliefs. For an officer in the fire service, what you say is registered by the crew members and will alter how they view their leaders — even the flip remarks.
- PUB DATE: 7/14/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1