Courtesy photo by West Thurston Regional Fire Authority
Updated at 8:04 p.m.
EARLY MORNING BLAZE TAKES OUT TWO SEMI TRUCKS
• Crews from West Thurston Regional Fire Authority were called about 4 o’clock yesterday morning to a report of two parked semi trucks burning at a business northeast of Littlerock. Firefighters arriving to the 900 block of 83rd Avenue Southwest found other big rigs threatened by the fire and were able to quickly extinguish it, according to a news release from the fire department. An employee coming in to work had called it in, spokesperson Lt. Lanette Dyer reported. The cause is under investigation, according to Dyer. They were destroyed. She says the business and the trucks are insured. She describes the business’s name as Southwest Trucking Olympia.
THEFT
• A stolen small cargo trailer was discovered abandoned in a lot at Southwest Circle Street in Chehalis yesterday morning.
• An individual told an officer about 9 a.m. yesterday that someone broke into her vehicle on Saturday while she was inside a store at the 600 block of Harrison Avenue in Centralia. Her wallet was missing, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Police were called just before noon yesterday about a car prowl at the 100 block of Jefferson Street in Centralia. The victim told an officer someone got inside her vehicle but didn’t take anything, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Chehalis police took a report yesterday from someone who said their handicap permit was taken from their vehicle the day before while at the 700 block of South Market Boulevard at Ace Hardware.
• Morton police reported yesterday they are reviewing surveillance tape following a complaint a week ago Monday that someone stole donated items from the drop box at Jan’s Lost and Found.
VANDALISM
• Centralia police responded about 8 a.m. yesterday to five victims of graffiti at the 500 block behind North Rock and Iron streets. It was plain black gang-style tagging as though someone walked down an alley and painted everything they came across, mostly garages, according to the Centralia Police Department. At about 10 a.m., an officer took reports of several buildings affected during the night on the 500 block of North Pearl Street.
RIDE HOME
• Morton police reported yesterday they responded about 8 p.m. on Oct. 4 to a dispute at the Bucksnort Inn and some of the involved parties were provided a ride home.
COLLISION
• Centralia police responded to a vehicle versus bicycle accident at the 1500 block of South Gold Street about 5:30 p.m. yesterday in which the male bicyclist, age unavailable, suffered minor injuries. He rode in front of a vehicle that was attempting to leave a parking lot, according to the Centralia Police Department.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving with suspended license, misdemeanor assaults, shoplifting of a beer; responses for alarms, minor collision, a student with marijuana, underage drinking, suspicious circumstances such a suspicious camo trailer in the woods near the 800 block of Main Avenue in Morton that turned out to belong to the new property owner; concerns and complaints about animals … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter