12:16 p.m. "We're searching for digits (12:01 item)" -- emergency responder at scene of radio tower rescue in North Idaho. Dangling patient lost at least one finger.
12:01 p.m. Caller reports twentysomething male may be dangling from line 20 feet up in air, with arm pinned to side, @ H54/Caravelle/Athol. Responders are sending ladder truck and Life Flight.
11:08 a.m. A dog is running loose @ 11164 N. Strahorn/Hayden Lake.
10:04 a.m. Driver of black Dodge van possibly DUI @ s/b H95/MP 444 (Corbin Hill Road/Athol).
9:38 a.m. Priest River ambulance responding to unattended death on Harmony Hill Lane.
9:28 a.m. Someoen in 17500 block of Atlas Road/Rathdrum Prairie suffering chest pain.
8:36 a.m. ISP officer reports piece of equipment has shifted on bed of semi @ n/b H95/Appleway, and may tumble off. Officer can't make stop on trucker because he has a prisoner in custody en route to the jail.
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.