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PM Scanner Traffic — 9.22.09

Top Post (from 2:14 p.m.): 4 people have suffered head and neck injuries in a 10-foot ball after a deck collapse at a home @ Versailles & Saint Michelle/Coeur d'Alene Place. They fell 10 feet. 2 ambulances are en route. KXLY story here.

  • 5:02 p.m. 60ish female is unconscious after being stung in the foot by a bee @ Atlas & Boekel/Rathdrum.
  • 4:45 p.m. Smoke is pouring from the hood of a van @ H95 & Prairie/Hayden.
  • 4:12 p.m. BNSF officials have caught an illegal hitchhiker on a train and wants to hand him over to deputies @ the Mcguire Road crossing.
  • 4:03 p.m. A boy about 5 to 7 years old is playing on an I-90 onramp @ Spokane Street/Post Falls.
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  • 3:48 p.m. A customer with a complaint wants an officer to join her @ Finlay Hyundai.
  • 3:17 p.m. A male is panhandling on Mullan in front of Walmart.
  • 3:03 p.m. A man, an estranged wife, and another man who is moving her in a van are involved in a domestic dispute near Timberlake Junior High. Other vehicles involved are a tow truck and an Isuzu Trooper.
  • 2:24 p.m. Unattended death @ Ivy Court/2200 Ironwood.
  • 2:22 p.m. A third ambulance has been sent to the Coeur d'Alene Place deck collapse.
  • 2:18 p.m. A male in a tank top, driving a red pickup on Mullan, reportedly tried to strangle a female on Coeur d'Alene Lake Drive a few minutes ago.
  • 2:14 p.m. 4 people have suffered head and neck injuries in a 10-foot ball after a deck collapse at a home @ Versailles & Saint Michelle/Coeur d'Alene Place. They fell 10 feet. 2 ambulances are en route.
  • 1:32 p.m. Jay @ Fernan Hill Road & Sleepy Lane reports someone in an older Chevy one-ton pickup is cutting trees on private property.
  • 12:20 p.m. Spokane Veterans Clinic reports a Hayden combat vet w/guns in the house is threatening suicide. The man's wife may be in danger, too.
  • 12:03 p.m. A Fourth of July Creek Road resident reports finding baggies of drugs near her property.
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    D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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