CHILDRENS’ CLINIC CATCHES FIRE IN CENTRALIA
• Riverside Fire Authority reports heavy damage from a fire last night at a childrens’ medical clinic across from Providence Centralia Hospital. Crews called about 8:10 p.m. to Northwest Pediatric Center on the 1900 block of Cooks Hill Road in Centralia found fire at the rear of the building with extension into the attic, according to Capt. Casey McCarthy. The fire was brought under control quickly with assistance from fire departments in Chehalis and Rochester, according to McCarthy. Nobody was injured. Riverside tweeted just before 9:30 p.m. the fire was out and personnel were helping representatives of the business to salvage high priority supplies and property. The cause was under investigation.
MILKING PARLOR CATCHES FIRE IN ADNA
• Fire struck at an Adna dairy during the night, damaging its milking parlor but firefighters were able to keep it from spreading to a barn containing some 200 cows. Lewis County Fire District 6 called just before 3:30 a.m. to the 400 block of Bunker Creek Road found the long, narrow parlor building roughly 75 percent involved in flames, Firefighter Matt McCoy said. The building was connected in a T-fashion to the large barn, he said. “I thought we were going to lose the barn with the cows, but the guys did a really good job of knocking it down,” McCoy said. They were assisted by crews from the Chehalis Fire Department, Lewis County Fire District 13 and Riverside Fire Authority, he said. McCoy said it appeared some of the equipment may be salvageable, but the owner had to find a way with neighbors to get the cows milked this morning. It might not have ended so well if not for a deputy out on patrol who noticed the smoke, he said. “That right there was one of the saving graces,” he said. The cause is under investigation.
DUI COLLISION
• A 21-year-old driver was hospitalized early this morning after he wrecked a car on Jackson Highway at Plomondon Road outside Toledo. Troopers called at 4:55 a.m. report Ivan W. Case, of Chehalis, was traveling fast southbound, failed to negotiate a curve and left the roadway, coming to rest in the ditch. The 2009 Honda Accord he was driving is described as totaled. He was wearing a seatbelt, but was injured and transported to Providence Centralia Hospital, according to the Washington State Patrol. The crash is blamed on speed and Case is to be issued a citation for driving under the influence, according to the state patrol.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, trespass, obstructing, misdemeanor assault, driving under the influence; responses for vandalism, missing vehicle … and more.
The end of the long milking parlor farthest from the cow barn after the fire is mostly extinguished. / Courtesy photo by Lewis County Fire District 6
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter