Lewis County Sirens.com

Updated at 3:16 p.m.

WINLOCK MAN HOSPITALIZED AFTER ACCIDENT WITH FIRE

• A Winlock resident in his 20s was airlifted to a Portland hospital yesterday for injuries he sustained when he apparently was attempting to ignite a burn pile using gasoline. “It flashed on him and he received burns severe enough he needed to go to a specialty burn unit,” Lewis County Fire District Assistant Chief Kevin Anderson said. It happened about 3:30 p.m. at the 1500 block of King Road. The patient was taken to the elementary school to be picked up by a helicopter and taken to Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, according to Anderson. Firefighters advise it’s never safe to use gasoline to fuel a fire, Anderson said.

CENTRALIA AREA WOMAN RUN OVER BY SMALL PICKUP TRUCK

• A woman in her late 70s was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after she was run over by her own small pickup truck west of Centralia yesterday. Firefighters called about 3:30 p.m. to the end of Lincoln Creek Road found the patient conscious and alert but because of her age and the way the incident occurred, sent her to the regional trauma center, according to Riverside Fire Authority. “She was able to get up on her own and call 911, it had rolled across her chest,” Firefighter-Paramedic Jesse Berry said.

ALCOHOL OVERDOSE

• A 16-year-old Toledo boy was hospitalized early this morning with apparent acute alcohol poisoning and his neighbor is in trouble for allegedly providing the beer he got drunk on. Deputies were called about 3:45 a.m. to the 5400 block of Jackson Highway, where the teen was so intoxicated and out-of-control his father had to hold him down, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The boy passed out and aid was called, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. An investigation found the 16-year-old had been at a neighbor’s bonfire, until his parents were called to come and get him because he was incoherent and combative, according to Brown. The case involving the 20-year-old neighbor will be referred to prosecutors for a possible charge of providing a premises for minor in possession, Brown said. The case involving the boy will be referred for a charge of minor in possession, she said.

FIGHT

• Centralia police were called overnight to the 1300 block of Windsor Avenue about a  person being assaulted by two males. The suspects fled before officers arrived, according to the Centralia Police Department. Sgt. Brian Warren said the male victim was taken to the hospital and the investigation is ongoing so he didn’t yet have more details.

POSSIBLE BURGLARY

• A woman who lives on South Market Boulevard in Chehalis called police yesterday evening to say she suspected someone had been slipping inside her apartment while she was away and stealing food. The residence previously wasn’t secured as well as it could be, but that has been remedied, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

GAS DRIVE OFF

• Chehalis police were called to a gas station on West Main Street about 4:40 a.m. today to a report a motorist fueled up and left without paying. The loss is more than $100, according to the Chehalis Police Department

DRUGS

• A 27-year-old resident of Pacific Beach was arrested about 1 a.m. today for a warrant and possession of methamphetamine after he was contacted by an officer at Southwest 18th Street and Kelly Avenue in Chehalis. Police found a baggie of suspected meth and a pipe in the pockets of Matthew L. Emery, according to the Chehalis Police Department. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.

THEFT

• Morton police reported they were called on Sunday to the 100 block of Collar Avenue where someone had stolen lawn ornaments – solar lights and a solar flower.

VEHICLE PROWL

• Centralia police took a report about 8:20 p.m. yesterday of a window broken out of a vehicle at the 1300 block of Windsor Avenue.

• A 37-year-old Centralia area man called the sheriff’s office yesterday to report he noticed on Saturday that his handgun had disappeared from where he put it under the seat of his pickup truck. The gun is a Kel-Tec 32 semiautomatic with a seven-round magazine, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Two holsters were missing as well, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said. He suspected the theft could have occurred sometime since June 8 at the 600 block of Dobson Court in Chehalis, his sister’s apartment where he has spent a lot of time and at least one time left a window cracked open, according to the sheriff’s office.

NOT ANIMAL ABUSE

• A call last week about suspected animal abuse at the 600 block of Westlake Avenue in Morton wasn’t what it seemed, according to police. An officer was told someone was hitting a dog on the evening of June 10, according to the Morton Police Department. The owner was hitting the dog, because it had a smaller dog in its mouth and the owner was trying to get the adult dog to drop it, according to police. The little dog was okay, according to police.

AND MORE

• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, misdemeanor assaults; responses for alarms, misdemeanor theft, a person behind a building talking to himself and acting strange, a registered sex offender making an inquiry as to what his restrictions might be for going to parks and public swimming pools … and more.

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