Recent Emergency Incidents
Monday, January 30th, 2012
Clallam County Fire Department fought an Agnew house fire for more than two hours Friday night.
A homeowner at 84 Hunters Gate Lane, near Finn Hall Road, came home and discovered heavy smoke and soon thereafter flames going through the roof.
Clallam County Fire Department dispatched at 6:50 p.m. following a 9-1-1 call.
Patrick Young, public information officer, told the Gazette the fire began in the center portion of the single-story home before spreading.
The closest water source was at least two miles away, so water was shuttled in, Young said.
No injuries were reported. Cause of the fire …
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
Saturday morning, Clallam County Fire District 3 responded to structure fire at 93 W Stephens Place off of South 3rd Avenue.
Neighbors reported smoke coming from the roof area of the home at 9:41 a.m.
Fire crews found the home full of smoke and flames, which they controlled in 30 minutes.
No one was home or injured but a cat remains missing.
The home sustained heavy smoke and heat damage. It cannot be occupied at this time.
Olympic Ambulance, PUD and the American Red Cross provided assistance.
The cause of the fire is under …
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Clallam County Fire District 3 responded to a structure fire Tuesday morning.
Patrick Young, public information officer, said crews reported at 9:09 a.m. to a home at 871 Belfield Ave. Sequim.
The firefighters quickly extinguish the fire in a bedroom and evacuate smoke out of the house. A half burned mattress was removed from the house.
The bedroom sustained heavy fire, smoke and water damage while the rest of the house suffered some smoke damage. Two adult males were at the residence at the time of the fire and were able to escape.
They were examined on scene …
Monday, December 12th, 2011
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Updated 4:45 p.m. Monday, Dec. 12.
Clallam County Fire District 3 personnel responded to a house fire Monday afternoon at 124 Fitzgerald Road, off House Road near Old Olympic Highway.
Neighbors reported smoke coming out of the home around 12:17 p.m.
Assistant chief Roger Moeder said the house was unoccupied but sustained heavy heat and smoke damage. The cause of the fire appears to be a light-duty extension cord with items on top of it inside the home’s garage.
Fire crews extinguished the fire …
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
A garage and RV are a total loss after a fire last night on Woodcock Road.
Clallam County Fire District 3 responded to the 3900 block of Woodcock Road for a fully involved garage fire at 10:33 p.m. The first units on scene found fire coming from all openings of the two-car detached garage, Public Information Officer Patrick Young said.
The fire was so intense it began to damage the home located within 30 feet, he said.
The initial fire crews set up fire hoses to protect the home while attacking …
Friday, November 4th, 2011
GARDINER — An unusual noise awoke Bob McCauley at his Old Gardiner Road home Thursday morning.
“I just heard sort of a grinding noise, like someone was dragging a Dumpster across some gravel,” said McCauley, who lives near U.S. Highway 101 where a tanker-truck filled with about 11,300 gallons of fuel collided with another vehicle and plowed down an embankment.
Both drivers unhurt
Alexander B. Krauch, the 17-year-old Sequim motorist involved in the crash, and 58-year-old tanker-truck driver Jackie M. Hart walked away unhurt, though Krauch’s 1999 Subaru Legacy …
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
Emergency responders rescued a 27-year-old woman trapped on an unstable bluff at Port Williams beach Monday night.
Peter Loeb, public information officer with Clallam County Fire District 3, said the woman, Jacqueline Mariott, was hiking with a friend around 7 p.m. when she climbed up a steep slope and felt the wet ground becoming unstable beneath her feet.
It was getting dark and she was 55 feet high on a 75-foot bluff, Loeb said.
Her friend called 9-1-1 and the responding Sheriff’s deputies requested help from the fire district, which arrived with their rescue unit, aid cars, a fire engine and several medics, …
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
DUNGENESS — A 23-year-old Sequim man died of severe head injuries he sustained in a single-car crash early Tuesday morning.
Jeremy Columbus died at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after he was ejected from his vehicle, said Chief Deputy Ron Cameron with the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office.
The cause of the crash is under investigation, with excessive speed in a 35-mph zone and alcohol as factors in the cause, Cameron said.
The late-model Subaru Outback was northbound at about 1:35 a.m. on Sequim-Dungeness Way about a half-mile south of East Anderson Road near Friendly Lane when it swerved left into the southbound lane …
Friday, September 9th, 2011
A Port Angeles man died after an early morning rollover Thursday morning, Sept. 8, west of Mattson Road off Old Olympic Highway.
A Clallam County Sheriff’s Sgt. came across the single vehicle rollover accident in an open field at 2:36 a.m. Sgt. John Hollis said it did not appear the accident occurred long before he got there.
The driver, Nathan Ruffcorn, 29, was found trapped inside of the overturned car, Hollis said.
Peter Loeb, public information officer with Clallam County Fire District 3, said units reached the scene at 2:48 a.m. and medics found Ruffcorn conscious but badly injured in the heavily-damaged Honda …
Monday, September 5th, 2011
A house at 133 Jamestown Road caught fire around 9:30 a.m. Sunday morning, Sept. 4.
Peter Loeb, Clallam County Fire Department 3 public information officer, said a clothes dryer is believed to be the cause of the fire.
Carolyn Lindley, the homeowner, and her pets were not harmed. The fire department determined smoke damage made Lindley’s home uninhabitable.
Flames reached upwards of 10 feet and crews used about 200 gallons of water to extinguish flames.
A small team of fire fighters stayed through the afternoon to make sure the fire was out.
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