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GLENOMA WOMAN LOSES HOME TO KEROSENE FIRE
• Firefighters called to a burning travel trailer in Glenoma on Saturday night extinguished the blaze but it was a total loss, according to Lewis County Fire District 18. Fire Chief Ed Lowe said they responded around 8 p.m. to the property along U.S. Highway 12 near Bowen Road and found the resident had burns to her hand or hands. She said she was lighting a kerosene lamp and it just took off, Lowe said. The trailer, in which she lived, had no electricity, according to Lowe. He called the Red Cross to help her out, he said.
THEFT
• Police were called to a burglary at a home on the 1200 block of H Street on Saturday afternoon. Missing is jewelry, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Centralia police took a report of the theft of pain medication from the 2600 block of Eureka Avenue on Friday.
WRECK
• Two cars were totaled and one person hospitalized after a collision on U.S. Highway 12 near Harms Road in Ethel on Saturday. Troopers called just before 11 a.m. determined that a Honda Accord was stopped waiting to make a left turn into a driveway when it was rear-ended by a four-door Buick. Ruth E. Smoots, 62, of Mossyrock, was transported to Morton General Hospital, according to the Washington State Patrol. Her Buick was impounded, according to the state patrol. The other driver, Thomasena Seifert, 38, from Onalaska, was reportedly injured, but not seriously enough to be taken to the hospital.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, assault, shoplifting, driving with under the influence, driving with suspended license; responses for stolen wallet, misdemeanor theft, parking lot fender bender … and more.
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CORRECTION: This has been updated to reflect that both women involved in the collision on U.S. Highway 12 were injured.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter