A garage attached to a duplex at 2022 S Fawn Drive caught fire late at night on Monday and was extinguished with no injuries reported, according to the Spokane Valley Fire Department (SVFD).
The SVFD, along with the Spokane County Fire District 8, responded to the fire after receiving reports from multiple individuals, none of whom knew if the fire had spread to either of the duplex units.
The residents living in the duplex units were reportedly at home during the fire, which caused the SVFD to upgrade the response to a second alarm. After arriving and finding that the occupants had evacuated their homes safely on their own and there were no other individuals inside, the second alarm response was canceled.
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VIDEO: The HAMMER Federal Training Center hosted fire departments and decision-makers from across Washington state on Friday, March 22 for Fire Ops 101.
Fire Ops 101 offers elected officials a day of firefighter training to give perspective on how fire crews operate and the challenges they face on the job.
I trained shoulder-to-shoulder with city councilmembers, mayors and other officials to share just a taste of how our local heroes go to battle. Firefighters walked us through six separate simulations which they called 'props.'
After donning around 50 pounds of gear, firefighters briefed us on our first prop: a car fire.
Firefighters taught us they attack car fires at a diagonal angle from the front bumper to limit the risk of auto parts striking them if auto parts explode outward from the car.
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PHOTOS: A 9-year-old boy on a bike survived after getting pinned under the rear axle of a school bus Tuesday morning in Vancouver, police said.
The boy was taken to a Portland hospital with non-life-threatening leg injuries, said Vancouver police spokesperson Kim Kapp. The Evergreen School District bus driver, whom police did not publicly identify, was not cited in the crash, police said.
The bus was turning east onto Southeast 10th Street from Ellsworth Road on a green light when the boy tried to bike across Ellsworth Road, Kapp said. He crashed into the side of the bus behind its door and went underneath the bus, she said. Vancouver firefighters responded and found the boy and his bike pinned under the rear axle of the bus, police said.
Firefighters used wooden blocks to support the bus as they lifted it off the boy using hydraulic struts.
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