One person was injured and approximately 40 people were evacuated Wednesday morning due to a fire at an apartment building on South 4th Street near Downtown Yakima. (It is the practice of the Yakima Fire Department to not release the specific address of a private home involved in a fire or other emergency response)
Yakima Fire Department (YFD) crews responded to the call of a third-floor apartment on fire at about 10:00 am Wednesday morning. » Read more
Damage to a house in the 2600
block of McCullough Road, which is located in unincorporated Yakima County, in
Yakima is estimated to be about $200,000 following a fire early Friday morning.
Crews from the Yakima Fire
Department, the Union Gap Fire Department, and West Valley Fire District 12
responded to a call of a house fire in the 2600 block of McCullough road at
about 2:30 am Friday. » Read more
The Yakima
Police Department (YPD) arrested Jayme Hernandez
Aria, 29, last night after
he admitted starting an apartment fire that displaced three families. There
were no injuries.
At 4:55 pm last
night, Sunday, January 6th, Yakima Fire Department (YFD)
firefighters and YPD officers responded to a call about an apartment fire at
503 South Naches Avenue. » Read more
Emergency
calls to 9-1-1 are directly reaching the SunComm center that serves several
first responder agencies in Yakima County, but additional testing is being
conducted to ensure intermittent outages experienced early this morning after a
major outage occurred last night are completely resolved.
If
an outage occurs again, or if anyone calling 9-1-1 gets a busy signal, » Read more
Emergency
calls to 9-1-1 are again directly reaching the SunComm center that serves
several first responder agencies in Yakima County. On Thursday evening, an outage that
originated with CenturyLink resulted in SunComm switching to a backup phone
number. Emergencies could also be
reported during the outage by texting 9-1-1.
The
outage affected 9-1-1 calling capabilities in multiple western states as well
as other internet-based services in several areas of the U.S. » Read more
Emergency calls to 9-1-1 at the SunComm center that serves several first responder agencies in Yakima County is being affected by an outage that is being attributed to an as yet undetermined issue originating with Century Link.
Until
the Century Link issues are resolved, people in Yakima County can call 509-457-0207. Calls will then be forwarded to SunComm. » Read more
At about 8:40 pm on Christmas
day, Yakima Fire Department (“YFD”) crews responded to a fire call at a house in
the 1000 block of North 6th Avenue.
Flames from the fire were reported to be visible from several blocks
away. No one was living in the house at
the time of the fire.
Once on scene, » Read more
City of Yakima firefighters were
called to a structure fire early this morning, Monday, involving a 4-unit
apartment building at 407 South 81st Avenue.
The fire occurred at 12:21 am
today when a resident in one of the apartments was cooking with a pan of oil on
the stove. When the stove caught fire, she escaped with minor burns to her
hands. » Read more
Cooking fires in residential buildings occurred more often on Thanksgiving Day than any other day of the year. Cooking is, by far, the leading cause of all Thanksgiving Day fires in residential buildings
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Each year home fires increase during the fall and winter months, why is that?
As it gets colder and the days get shorter, we spend more time indoors. With spending more time indoors, there is a greater risk of fires in your home by :
Smoking
Kitchen fires
Space heater fires – due to overloaded circuits or there is too much clutter near the heaters. » Read more
