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SMALL ARSON FIRE DOUSED INSIDE SCHOOL
• Investigators are looking into an intentionally set fire at a south Centralia grade school yesterday morning. Nobody was hurt and staff and students had evacuated after a fire alarm, according to Riverside Fire Authority. Crews called at 8:45 a.m. to Washington Elementary School on the 800 block of Field Avenue found smoke coming from the building, located a fire inside the boys bathroom and extinguished it, according to Fire Capt. Terry Ternan. He described the damage as light. Everyone was kept outside until the smoke was removed from the building, Ternan stated. The fire department is working with a police detective one the case.
BACKYARD THEFT
• Chehalis police were called about 12:15 p.m. yesterday to the 700 block of Southeast Adams Avenue about the theft of a Husky air compressor and blue and yellow floor jack stolen from behind a residence. The loss is estimated at $180, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
GARAGE BURGLED
• Centralia police were called to the 500 block of Girard Street yesterday morning where an individual reported a chainsaw, framing hammer and socket set were stolen from his garage sometime over the weekend.
LOST AND FOUND
• Cash was found at the 10 block of Northeast Cascade Avenue yesterday and turned in to the Chehalis Police Department.
ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD
• A 24-year-old Winlock resident was ticketed for driving too fast after his car slid around a corner and struck a building yesterday morning at Northwest Pacific Avenue and Front Street in Chehalis. It appeared there was no major damage to the building, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
• A 16-year-old girl sustained what seemed to be minor injuries after her car rolled several times off of state Route 508 south of Chehalis yesterday evening, according to authorities. Troopers and aid were called just before 6 p.m. to the scene just east of Jackson Highway. The two-door Honda Civic was totaled, according to the Washington State Patrol. “She was out of the vehicle, had gone to a nearby residence, and the car was up on its side off the road,” Lewis County Fire District 5 Firefighter-EMT Samantha Heldreth said. Hailee A. Wyatt, 16, from Onalaska, had been traveling westbound when her car left the roadway to the right, hit the ditch and then rolled, according to the state patrol. She was transported to Providence Centralia Hospital, according to the state patrol.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrant, misdemeanor assault, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, trespassing, suspicious circumstances, collision on city street … and more among 124 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter