An apartment at the Campus Village Apartments on the 900 block of E 18th Ave caught fire in the early hours of Sunday morning. According to Kittitas Valley Fire & Rescue, at 1:50 a.m., firefighters headed to the scene of a second-floor apartment fire after several callers reported flames coming from the balcony.
- PUB DATE: 4/15/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNDO-TV NBC 23 Yakima

VIDEO/PHOTOS: Eighteen people were displaced after a fire tore through a multi-family apartment complex in Tacoma Wednesday evening. According to the Tacoma Fire Department (TPD), crews responded to a report of a fire around 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Westwood Square Apartment complex on the 8800 block of Pacific Avenue.
- PUB DATE: 4/12/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

VIDEO: You may know what to do in case of an emergency, but does your child know what to do? Safety measures like knowing how to escape in case of a fire can mean life or death. It's why the Spokane Fire Department was at Finch Elementary earlier on Wednesday, teaching kids what to do in case of an emergency, doing it inside of their brand-new fire safety house.
- PUB DATE: 4/12/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

Benton County Fire Protection District 2 is celebrating its 75th birthday with an open house event on April 27. BCFD2's birthday event will be at Station 210 located at 130 Dale Ave. in Benton City from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Families are invited to spend time with BCFD2, eat hot dogs and cupcakes and check out fire apparatus.
- PUB DATE: 4/12/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC Right Now

Multiple small fires near the Yakima River outside of Toppenish were fought and controlled by fire crews with the help of a bulldozer and a drone on Monday, according to Yakima County Fire District 5. YCFD5 Deputy Fire Chief Joel Byam said the fire started at 5:30 p.m. and burned two acres before crews established a perimeter at 7:30 p.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC Right Now

It could have been much worse. Eastside firefighters were called to a strip mall Wednesday morning in the Bel-Red neighborhood on Northwest 20th Street. When they arrived, they found a fire in some sort of appliance in the garage area of the strip mall. Eight businesses were evacuated and more than half a dozen engines from Bellevue, and Redmond Fire Departments came to the scene along with nearly two dozen fire fighters.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2024 8:20:59 PM - SOURCE: MyNorthwest

Officials with the Longview Fire Department responded to a distress call reporting a male was in the slough near the 3600 block of Oak Street. “Two minutes and thirty-nine seconds after dispatch, firefighters arrived and discovered an adult male partially submerged in the water. Lieutenant Graham Lasse, demonstrating remarkable commitment to duty, immediately donned a life jacket and jumped into the water while other firefighters deployed rescue ropes,” Longview Fire said in a press release.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KATU-TV ABC 2 Portland

A fire at a home split into apartments in Spokane's lower South Hill sent one person to the hospital with moderate burns and displaced ten people. Several units responded to the fire at 1203 W 8th Avenue around 11:53 a.m. Tuesday. According to a PIO at the scene, the fire started in one of the upstairs apartments.
- PUB DATE: 4/9/2024 11:18:59 PM - SOURCE: KREM-TV CBS 2 Spokane

Spokane's new Fire Chief is ready to tackle some of the city's greatest challenges as she assumes her new role. Chief Julie O'Berg was named Spokane Fire Department's newest Chief yesterday by Mayor Lisa Brown. She has served as Interim Chief since January. "It's good. It's humbling," said Chief O'Berg.
- PUB DATE: 4/9/2024 8:12:00 PM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

VIDEO: The city of Spokane officially has a new fire Chief. Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown announced Tuesday she appointed current interim chief Julie O'Berg to be the permanent Spokane Fire Department Chief. O'Berg has been serving as the interim fire chief since January 2024 and is the first woman appointed to lead the department.
- PUB DATE: 4/9/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KREM-TV CBS 2 Spokane