Crews conduct a defensive attack on residence on the 100 block of Rarey Road in Winlock / Courtesy photo by Lewis County Fire District 15
HOUSE FIRES
• The cause of a fire that destroyed a double wide mobile home and its contents in Winlock early on Sunday morning is under investigation, according to Lewis County Fire District 15. Fire Lt. Patrick Jacobson said nobody was home at the time and nobody was injured. Crews called at 4:58 a.m. arrived within six minutes of dispatch to find the residence on the 100 block of Rarey Road heavily involved in flames, according to Jacobson. The blaze threatened a detached garage which they protected. The fire was under control by 6:20 a.m. and personnel remained on scene until 10 o’clock checking for and extinguishing hot spots, according to Jacobson. Approximately 18 firefighters responded, including from Lewis County Fire Districts 5, 6, and Cowlitz-Lewis Fire District 20.
• At approximately 6:52 p.m. on Saturday, firefighters with Lewis County Fire District 15 joined crews from Lewis County Fire District 6 on a fully-involved structure fire in the 100 block of Rogers Road outside of Chehalis. No injuries were reported, according to District 15 Fire Lt. Patrick Jacobson
VEHICLE THEFT
• A small utility trailer was reported stolen from the front yard of a residence on the 200 block of Tilley Avenue in Centralia by an unknown suspect on Sunday afternoon, according to the Centralia Police Department.
CREEPING INTO FOOD TRUCK
• Centralia police said it appeared someone had possibly slept during the night inside a food truck that was reported broken into about 11:15 a.m. on Sunday. Officers called to the 600 block of North Tower Avenue observed that someone had unscrewed a door and window from the truck and made entry, according to the Centralia Police Department.
FAKE PHONE CALLER
• Centralia police say they took a report of a scam in which unknown person have called called at least one resident and purported to be from the Social Security Administration and they needed payment or an arrest warrant would be issued to the recipient of the phone call. The federal agency would not telephone people and threaten to have them arrested, according to the Centralia Police Department.
DRUGS
• When Centralia police contacted two people at the 3200 block of Galvin Road at about 1:40 p.m. on Saturday who had outstanding warrants, one of them was allegedly found in possession of heroin. Kristen M. Karboski, 37, of Centralia, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department. Her companion, Lorrie L. Keen, 58, of Centralia, was cited and then released with a new court date to appear in Centralia Municipal Court, according to police.
ON THE ROAD
• A motorist called police about 6:50 p.m. on Friday to report that as she was traveling along Harrison Avenue near High Street in Centralia, a male threw a rock at her windshield.
AND MORE
• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, obstructing, hit and run, trespassing, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license, fourth-degree domestic assault, third-degree domestic malicious mischief, interfering with reporting of domestic violence; responses for alarm, dispute, hit and run, civil issue, vehicle collision, suspicious circumstances, protection order violation and more among 379 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 72-hour period ending about 7 a.m. today.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter