BLUE CHEVY FOUND IN CREEK<\/p>\n
\u2022 Police were called about 12:45 p.m. yesterday to a wreck in which a pickup truck landed upside down in a creek in the north end of Centralia. It happened near North Gold Street and Roswell Road<\/strong>; it was a blue Chevrolet, according to the Centralia Police Department. A witness told an officer the driver fled the scene and appeared to be uninjured, according to police.<\/p>\n COMPUTER TAKEN<\/p>\n \u2022 Centralia police took a report of a laptop computer stolen from the 1600 block of Windsor Avenue<\/strong>. An officer was called about the theft about 4 p.m. yesterday, according to the Centralia Police Department.<\/p>\n HEAVY FORKLIFT ATTACHMENTS VANISH FROM BUSINESS<\/p>\n \u2022 Somebody made off with a pair of 10-foot long, heavy duty metal attachments for a fork lift during the night from a business on Northwest State Avenue<\/strong> in Chehalis. Police were called to Arvids just before noon yesterday about the theft. Sgt. Gwen Carrell said they are called “rams” and used to pick up rolls of carpet. They could have been stolen for their scrap metal value, she said. From what she was told, it would take several people to lift on of them, Carrell said. They are valued at $900 each.<\/p>\n UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF MEDS?<\/p>\n \u2022 A driver who lost control of his pickup and ran over a railroad crossing sign about 11 a.m. yesterday in Centralia was checked for driving under the influence of prescription drugs, according to police. It happened at Woodland Avenue and Alder Street<\/strong>. Nobody was injured and the driver was released, but the results of the tests are pending, according to the Centralia Police Department.<\/p>\n BROKEN GAS LINE PROMPTS SMALL EVACUATION IN CHEHALIS NEIGHBORHOOD<\/p>\n \u2022 About a dozen people were evacuated from a handful of homes in Chehalis yesterday when firefighters responded to a “significant” gas leak.\u00a0 Police were also called to the area of Southwest Ninth Street and Pacific Avenue<\/strong> to the report a city worker hit\u00a0 natural gas line. Fire Capt. Rob Gebhart said crews cordoned off the area and stood by to wait for the gas company to make repairs. The fire department got a bus to put the people in because it was raining, Gebhart said.<\/p>\n HAY BALES BLOCK INTERSTATE 5 NEAR MAYTOWN<\/p>\n \u2022 Nobody was injured but bales of hay were spilled on the freeway when a pickup truck hauling a trailer jack-knifed on northbound Interstate 5<\/strong> near the Maytown interchange yesterday afternoon, according to the Washington State Patrol.\u00a0 Aid was called about 5 p.m. but were cancelled because no one was hurt, Rochester area Fire Chief Robert Scott said. The roadway was cleared and all lanes were reopened by about 6:20 p.m., the state Department of Transportation reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BLUE CHEVY FOUND IN CREEK \u2022 Police were called about 12:45 p.m. yesterday to a wreck in which a pickup truck landed upside down in a creek in the north end of Centralia. It happened near North Gold Street and Roswell Road; it was a blue Chevrolet, according to the Centralia Police Department. A witness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-12503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sharyns-sirens","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12503"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12506,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12503\/revisions\/12506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}