Several Columbus firefighters are under investigation for damage to city property, and a supervisor has been reassigned after an unauthorized, alcohol-fueled party at a Downtown fire station. Fire Chief Kevin O’Connor ordered the investigation this week after city workers discovered empty alcohol containers and damage at Station 2, 150 E.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: columbus dispatch

A city paramedic had died after being hospitalized just a few days earlier, according to the Chief of the Bladensburg Volunteer Fire Department. Chief Randy Kuenzli says Firefighter Nick Hemingway was hospitalized after going into cardiac arrest late Tuesday afternoon while on duty as a paramedic with the Baltimore City Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 7/20/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJZ-TV CBS 13 Baltimore

A Red Robin Restaurant in Bothell caught fire Sunday during the dinner rush. The two-alarm fire started inside the location on the Bothell-Everett Highway near I-405. Witnesses said flames and smoke were shooting from the roof before firefighters arrived. An employee said itall started in the kitchen.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2015 10:47:10 PM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13

Nearly 750 unintended fires have flared up across the state this fire season, state officials said, mentioning among them a rare burn in the lush Olympic rainforest. Rivers of the North Olympic Peninsula are running well below normal, but drought conditions here are less severe than they are elsewhere in the state, officials said in a Friday conference call.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2015 7:44:27 PM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News