Planning group seeks volunteers
Dalton Gardens needs volunteers to sit on the Planning and Zoning Commission.
March 1 is the deadline to submit a letter of interest. Applicants must be at least 18 years old and have lived in the city for two years.
Deliver or mail letters to the Office of the Mayor, City of Dalton Gardens, 6360 N. 4th St., Dalton Gardens, ID 83815.
For more information, call (208) 772-3698.
Residents escape Valley fire
Two fires an hour apart Friday night kept Spokane County Fire District No. 1 busy.
In the most serious, two Spokane Valley residents narrowly escaped a fire in their apartment.
“They got out just in time,” said Paul Chase, Deputy Fire Marshal for Spokane Valley Fire.
About 11 p.m. Friday, a fire believed to have been ignited by a cigarette started in a four-plex in the 1500 block of North Bowdish Road. The occupants got out of the apartment uninjured, but Chase said the smoke detector was not attached to the wall before the fire.
The cost of the damage has yet to be determined. One room in the two-bedroom apartment was destroyed.
About an hour before the fire on Bowdish, firefighters struggled to reach a fire in a stack of straw in the Greenacres area. At one point, a firetruck became stuck in the mud and needed to be pulled out.
That fire did not threaten any buildings, but the pile smoldered into Saturday, Chase said.
Passengers sue Alaska Airlines
Six Alaska Airlines passengers have sued the airline and the company that handles its SeaTac ground operations claiming they suffered “severe physical and emotional injuries” when a hole ripped open in the plane’s side wall on a Dec. 26 flight.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleges the damage to Flight 536 from Seattle to Burbank, Calif., was caused by negligence on the part of Alaska and Menzies Aviation.
An Alaska Airlines spokeswoman said the carrier has not seen the lawsuit.
A preliminary investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board found that the MD-83 was bumped on the ground by a baggage loader operated by a Menzies worker.
Shortly after takeoff, a 1-foot by 6-inch hole opened in the fuselage, causing the plane to rapidly depressurize.The suit seeks unspecified punitive and compensatory damages.