Updated at 6:09 p.m.
CHIMNEY FIRES
• Time to check and clean your chimneys if you haven’t already done it, suggests Lewis County Fire District 5. Firefighters were called about 8:10 p.m. yesterday to a chimney fire on Maplewood Lane outside Chehalis. “We were able to quickly extinguish it,” District 5 Firefighter Brad Bozarth said. There was no extension into the home, he said. A resident on the 700 block of Pleasant Valley Road on Saturday was a little less fortunate. Crews responded about 12:20 p.m. when a passerby noticed a roof on fire, Bozarth said. Heat and embers from the failed chimney of a wood stove got into the attic, he said. Firefighters knocked it down quickly enough to prevent any interior damage, but an approximately 10 foot by 10 foot section of burned roof had to be cut away, he said. The woman who lives there and uses a wheelchair was home and uninjured, he said.
THEFT
• A stolen vehicle valued at $1,000 was recovered on Saturday morning on the 100 block of Wigley Road outside Centralia. It was stripped and located on a gravel right-of-way belonging to TransAlta, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said it wasn’t immediately known what kind of vehicle it was.
CAR PROWL
• Centralia police were called about 11:50 p.m. yesterday to the 1000 block of Eckerson Road where someone broke into an unlocked vehicle and stole CDs.
SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE
• Morton police report an officer was summoned about 9:15 a.m. on Friday to the Mossyrock Post Office after a suspicious package was found out front. The case was turned over the to postal inspectors, according to the Morton Police Department. Further details were no readily available.
DRUGS
• A 45-year-old Chehalis man was arrested for possession of methamphetamine when he was stopped on the 700 block of North National Avenue in Chehalis yesterday afternoon. Bryant W. Byrd was wanted on a warrant from the state Department of Corrections and was driving with a suspended license, according to the Chehalis Police Department. Byrd was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to police.
PEDESTRIAN VERSUS DOG
• Police were called just before noon yesterday by a woman who said a dog bit her sweater as she walked on the sidewalk along the 600 block of Westlake Avenue in Morton. She tried to scare the canine away by throwing her cell phone at it, according to the Morton Police Department.
NAKED PEDESTRIAN DRAWS LAW ENFORCEMENT
• Police were called just before 3 p.m. yesterday to Mossyrock regarding an intoxicated man who had taken off his clothes and was walking in traffic. When officers arrived, they were directed to an apartment in the area, however, they were not able to make contact with the suspect, according to the Morton Police Department.
COLLISIONS
• Officers responded to a roll-over vehicle accident in the area of Aldrich and Mossyrock Road West about 7 o’clock this morning. The female driver was transported to Morton General Hospital with minor injuries, according to the Morton Police Department. Her infant passenger did not sustain any injuries, according to police.
• A 49-year-old Centralia man was arrested yesterday for hit and run, driving under the influence and with a suspended license. Dain R. Tracy was booked into the Lewis County Jail in connection with the approximately 5:10 incident at North Pearl and Virginia streets, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• A 26-year-old Centralia man and his passenger both sustained minor injuries when his left the roadway on the 500 block of Highway 603 west of Chehalis early this morning. Brandon M. Blurton’s VW Jetta was totaled and he was booked into the Lewis County Jail for driving under the influence following the approximately 12:20 a.m. wreck, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.
• Centralia police responded about 10:20 p.m. yesterday to the 2300 block of North Pearl Street where a car drove off the roadway and into some mailboxes. Nobody was injured, according to the Centralia Police Department.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, drugs, hit and run, reckless driving, misdemeanor assault, violation of no contact order, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for alarms, dispute, lost purse, suspicious circumstances, possible suicidal person, tailgater flipping off motorist, report of possible sexual assault of a child, collisions on city streets and county roads; complaint of loud neighbor music … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter