A hit-and-run crash heavily damaged a school bus and injured the bus driver on Nov. 22 in Otis Orchards, but there were no children in the bus when it flipped on its side and skidded into a yard in the 21000 block of East Wellesley Avenue.

The number of vacancies in the Spokane Fire Department due to Gov. Jay Inslee’s vaccine mandate continues to dwindle.

Russian news agencies say a fire at a Siberian coal mine has killed 52 miners and rescuers.

The Spokane Valley Fire Department’s swift water rescue team is generally busy in the spring and summer months when people recreate on the Spokane River, but they are prepared to respond to calls year-round.

Mayor Nadine Woodward pledged this week to conduct an audit as the city disclosed it expects the Spokane Fire Department to blow past its 2022 budget by as much as $5 million.

Kootenai County Fire and Rescue is without its newest fire engine after it sustained significant damage Monday in a crash about 8 miles southwest of Coeur d’Alene.

MEDICAL LAKE – Flames engulfed the second floor of a duplex apartment Monday afternoon across from Medical Lake High School.

An unoccupied home in east Spokane was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived to put out the blaze.

Arson fire was reported recently in Spokane Valley, but damage was limited and the person who set the fire was captured on video.

Crews arrived in three minutes and contained the fire to the home's walls and attic dormer, the news release said. Everyone in the home was safely evacuated and the fire did not damage any other areas.

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The house fire was reported just after 7:30 p.m. in the 1800 block of West Dean Avenue, according to a news release. Smoke was coming out of the front door when firefighters arrived.

Motorists passing a garage fire Thursday night in Spokane Valley crashed, causing significant damage to their vehicles but leaving the drivers uninjured.

Firefighters on Thursday extinguished a blaze that killed six dogs and destroyed a storage unit in Spangle.

"The public interest the city has put forth to prevent death certainly outweighs the public interest in what is alleged to be civil rights violations," said U.S. District Court Judge Thomas O. Rice, denying the request that was argued by both the city and Gov. Jay Inslee. 

Most fire calls the Spokane Valley Fire Department responds to are of accidental incidents, whether its faulty wiring or a sparking power line, but some are not.

The Spokane Valley Fire Department recently launched a new fire education program for elementary school students to replace the one that had firefighters bringing a miniature house to schools during Fire Prevention month each fall.