RFA conducts aerial attack on fire at Sierra Pacific Industries in Centralia / Courtesy photo by Riverside Fire Authority
FIRE DOUSED AT SAWMILL
• Three fire departments responding to an approximately 1:30 p.m. call yesterday for a fire at a Centralia sawmill arrived to find personnel on site already applying water and a sprinkler system activated. Units from Riverside Fire Authority sprayed water into the top of the bag house, according to RFA. The fire at Sierra Pacific Industries on the 3000 block of Kuper Road was contained to the bag house and the damage was moderate, Capt. Erik Olson stated. It was likely caused by a spark from internal machinery, according to Olson. Nobody was injured.
VANDALISM
• It appeared the cause of six broken windows in a building at the 200 block of East Oakview Avenue in Centralia reported about 7:40 a.m. yesterday was someone throwing rocks, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Police were called to the 300 block of South King Street in Centralia at 8:50 a.m. yesterday where an individual reported that during the night someone had cut a fuel line on their vehicle and drained it of gasoline.
OFFICERS CALLED TO GET TRAVELER OFF TRAIN
• Centralia police requested just before 9 p.m. yesterday to remove a man from a train because he was reportedly causing a disturbance responded to the 200 block of North Railroad Avenue where the 29-year-old Longview resident had locked himself inside a bathroom. Officers removed Keith A. Byman and then booked him into the Lewis County Jail for an outstanding warrant, according to the Centralia Police Department.
HARASSMENT
• Chehalis police were called about 11:45 a.m. yesterday to the 300 block of West Main Street by an attorney who said a man was yelling at her and harassing her outside a courtroom.
BANK CARD SHARING
• Chehalis police were called about 2:40 p.m. yesterday for a complaint of possible fraudulent use of a bank card in a case associated with the 500 block of Southeast Washington Avenue determined there was no criminal activity but it was instead a civil matter, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, trespassing, driving under the influence, fourth-degree domestic assault, driving with suspended license; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, trespass, hit and run, shoplifting, vehicle collision, disorderly person, suspicious circumstances … and more among 148 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