Tuesday, if you were driving along the freeway north of Yakima you would have seen fire trucks.
Our news partner KNDO followed fire crews who were on the Yakima River training for water rescues.
The Yakima Fire Department says it will no longer send fire trucks on every call for emergency medical services and Woody Woodcock says that is good news for Yakima. Woodcock is the President of Advance Life Systems Ambulance in Yakima who says allowing dispatchers to determine if a call can be handled by an ambulance is good news for everyone...
Yakima Police and Fire officials are about to get some extra help in tough situations. Former Yakima City Council member Susan Whitman has just completed training at the Police and Fire Chaplains Academy in Burien.
She completed more than 50 hours of training so she can help citizens and police and fire officials in tough situations...
Yakima Fire Department investigators continue searching for a cause to the fire that gutted the Majors Burgers restaurant at Third and Washington Avenues Monday. Someone driving by the restaurant spotted the smoke and called the fire department...
For years fire departments have worked together to help save lives and that partnership will be re affirmed during the Yakima City Council meeting tonight. The council is expected to approve a mutual or automatic aid agreement with the West Valley Fire Department...
Tuesday afternoon, Yakima Fire Department had to move quickly to knock out a fast burning garage fire at Naches Avenue and Adams Street.
Firefighters arrived to find the garage in flames and two destroyed cars.
The fire threw up a black smoke column that could be seen all around Yakima...
Yakima ended its two-year study of a regional fire authority by voting against the idea during a Tuesday study session. Yakima Fire Chief Dave Wilson says The Regional Fire Authority would have created an umbrella department that covered Yakima, Union Gap as well as Fire Districts 10 and 11...