A series of fundraisers to help injured Pierce 23 Fire & Rescue Battalion Chief Bill Tylor are planned Saturday at the Eatonville Eagles Hall, 100 Weyerhaeuser Road N.
A series of fundraisers to help injured Pierce 23 Fire & Rescue Battalion Chief Bill Tylor are planned Saturday at the Eatonville Eagles Hall, 100 Weyerhaeuser Road N.
A pancake breakfast is at 8 a.m., followed by a poker run that takes off from the hall at 9:30 a.m. A spaghetti dinner is at 5 p.m. and a live auction is at 8 p.m.
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The Kansas City Chiefs placed wide receiver Terrance Copper on injured reserve Saturday.
A Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier trained to disable explosive devices died Thursday from wounds he suffered in a Dec. 9 explosion in Afghanistan, the Defense Department announced Saturday.
Thurston County firefighters rescued three Joint Base Lewis-McChord paratroopers who were caught in trees during an exercise Thursday afternoon.
Nobody was injured in an early morning fire that destroyed a home at 8427 Valley Green Court SE, Lacey, officials say. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Fire destroyed an SUV and a detached garage at a Birchwood neighborhood home Saturday afternoon, but quick work by firefighters spared the nearby house.
"It was a very timely stop, apparently," said Battalion Chief Andy Day of the Bellingham Fire Department. He said the garage at 3248 Firwood and the vehicle, a Toyota 4Runner, were mostly lost. The single-family home at that address suffered some heat damage to its exterior, he said.
A dispatcher took the first call at 1:29 p.m. and the fire was reported "knocked down" at 1:39 p.m., he said. Some 19 firefighters from both Bellingham Fire and nearby Fire District 8's Marietta station were dispatched.
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