Updated at 5:59 p.m.
HOUSE FIRE CONTAINED TO KITCHEN
• Nobody was home and nobody was injured when a fire broke out yesterday afternoon in a house near the Newaukum Valley Golf Course off Jackson Highway south of Chehalis. Lewis County Fire Districts 5 and 6 responded to the approximately 3:10 p.m. call from a neighbor on Divot Drive and knocked the flames down fairly quickly, according to District 5 Chief Gregg Peterson. He estimated perhaps $100,000 loss between the structure and its contents, with the fire contained to the kitchen but smoke damage throughout. The fire is under investigation Peterson said.
AUTO THEFT
• Police were called about 12:20 p.m. yesterday regarding the theft of a car from the 1100 block of Tennyson Drive in Centralia. Missing is 2001 Honda CRV, with a license plate reading 822 YFF, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• A police dog track near Toledo late yesterday was unsuccessful as law enforcement officers searched for a driver who fled following a traffic stop of a vehicle that turned out to be stolen. The Washington State Patrol called the sheriff’s office for help in the area of Plomondon and Toledo-Vader roads about 5 p.m., according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
BREAKING AND ENTERING
• Someone damaged a door and broke into a vacant house for sale on the 100 block of Riffe Hill Road, causing a loss of a about $200, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reports this morning. It appeared someone broke in, but did not take anything, sometime since January, according to the sheriff’s office.
MONEY MISSING FROM ACCOUNT
• A 20-year-old Chehalis area resident reported over the weekend that he found $483 worth of fraudulent charges to his bank account, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. The victim did not know how it happened, according to the sheriff’s office.
VEHICLE PROWL
• Chehalis police were called about 8 o’clock yesterday morning to the 100 block of Northeast Washington Avenue where someone had broke into a pickup truck parked on the street overnight. They got through the rear sliding window, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
VANDALISM
• An officer was called about 3 a.m. on Saturday shortly after someone broke the windshield of a car parked on Northeast Boistfort Street in Chehalis.
• Officers responded to the 200 block of Main Avenue in Morton about 1 p.m. on Friday after witnesses reported seeing a female stab the tire of a vehicle parked on the street. The suspect, described as blonde, was not found, according to the Morton Police Department. Total loss is estimated at $375.
COLLISIONS
• A 20-year-old Chehalis woman was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with a broken leg after she lost control of her car on Friday afternoon on the 2200 block of Centralia-Alpha Road east of Chehalis and slid head-on into a large fir tree, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy responding about 1:10 p.m. found her Toyota Scion totaled and issued a citation for no seatbelt, no insurance and speeds too fast for conditions, according to the sheriff’s office.
• A 19-year-old driver was hospitalized after he drove into a guard rail at the end of Fuller Road in Salkum at about 1:30 a.m. yesterday and struck his head on the steering wheel and windshield. The Salkum resident said he was traveling southbound through thick fog and before he realized where he was, ran straight into the guard rail in front of him at Spencer Road, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. He sustained a minor head injury, but his 2000 Ford Escape ended up with major front end damage, according to the sheriff’s office. He was cited for speeds too fast for conditions and was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said.
• A 17-year-old Chehalis girl reportedly escaped any injury when she was distracted by her cell phone on her vehicle’s console lighting up and collided with a utility pole about 8:20 p.m. yesterday on the 100 block of Deep Creek Road west of Chehalis. The pole was sheered off at its base, knocking overhead lines to the ground and her 1995 Hyundai Accent sustained major damage, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. She was cited for second-degree negligent driving, according to the sheriff’s office.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, trespassing, urinating in public, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarms, dispute, misdemeanor assault, collisions on city streets, shoplifting including a call to a Centralia Outlets store after a pair of males left with two children’s jackets without paying … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter