Firefighters used water and foam to extinguish a burning truck on Interstate 5 north of Toledo. / Courtesy photo by District 5 Chief Eric Linn
TRUCK FIRE SLOWS TRAFFIC ON I-5
• Firefighters called about 1 p.m. today to Interstate 5 just north of the Winlock-Toledo interchange found the cab of a semi-truck fully engulfed in flames, but the driver had already exited the vehicle. Nobody was injured, according to Lewis County Fire District 15. The northbound lanes were shut down to just one lane until the fire was knocked down, Firefighter Patrick Jacobson said. Jacobson said he did not know what ignited the blaze.
THEFT
• A deputy took a report yesterday of a burglary at the 100 block of Lacey Lane near Toledo in which an estimated $2,300 of valuables were stolen. Taken sometime since last Thursday were a 3000-watt generator, a John Deere mower, a Franklin wood stove, a camp griddle and other items, according to the Lewis County Sherif’s Office.
• A brass plumbing fixture was stolen when someone broke into an unoccupied house on the 1000 block of Roosevelt Avenue in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday afternoon.
• Police were called yesterday morning about an apartment burglary on the 3000 block of Borst Avenue in Centralia where appliances and unspecified fixtures were taken, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Somebody snipped neutral lines inside locked junction boxes to shut off power before stealing copper wire south of Glenoma early yesterday morning, according to the Lewis County Sherif’s Office. It happened sometime between 3:30 a.m. and 4:45 a.m. along Conlay Road, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. It also started a small fire, she said. The loss, including 24 feet of wire, amounts to about $5,800, Brown said.
• Centralia police were called yesterday evening about the theft of a wallet from a locker at the 2000 block of Borst Avenue in Centralia.
• Chehalis police were called just before 3 a.m. today to the parking lot at Wal-Mart on Northwest Louisiana Avenue where a driver found someone had tried to break in to his car. An old worn out gold Honda key as found in the passenger door of the parked Honda, the window was down a little bit and there some damage but it didn’t appear they got inside, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• Chehalis police were called about 3:15 p.m. yesterday to the 1400 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue when a woman returned to her vehicle after paying for her gasoline and discovered her purse with a large amount of cash was missing. She said she might have left her door open a bit and wasn’t positive it happened there, police said.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police took a report about 9:30 a.m. yesterday of a window being broken out of a vehicle at the 200 block of East Summa Street.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter