VADER MOBILE HOME FIRE STOPPED IN THE NIGHT
• Fire broke out inside a Vader home during the night, drawing members of Cowlitz-Lewis Fire District 20 to the 500 block of C Street. Crews called about 2:30 a.m. attacked the flames from both inside and outside the single-wide mobile home, according to Fire Chief Richard Underdahl. The resident said she was reading when she smelled something and checked her wood stove and even went outside to look at the chimney, Underdahl said. When she came back in, she saw flames around the ceiling tile, he said. “We were able to knock it down and keep the flames contained to to the living room, kitchen area,” he said. The woman was treated at the scene for chest pain and trouble breathing, perhaps mostly from the stress of getting her pets and some belongings out, he said. Underdahl said two small birds were evacuated. Firefighters were called back about 6 a.m. today, when someone observed some books on a shelf smoking, he said. One half of the mobile home was left untouched, but she is staying with friends or family, he said. The cause is under investigation.
NIGHT TIME INTRUDER STEALS FAMILY VEHICLE
• Police are investigating an incident in Mossyrock in which someone apparently broke into a home, stole a key and then made off with a vehicle while a family slept. An officer called about 6 o’clock on Tuesday morning to the 100 block of Hazel Street found there were pry marks on the back door, according to the Morton Police Department. The perpetrator was gone when the residents woke up, there was no contact, Police Chief Dan Mortensen said. “They kind of prowled around the bathroom, found a key and stole a (Dodge) Durango,” Mortensen said. “It was white.” Mortensen, who didn’t handle the call himself, said he is going to be looking into the incident further today. He said he understood there were cars prowled in two other locations in the area during the same time frame.
UNRULY CLIENT ARRESTED BY FEDS
• Centralia police were called to the Social Security office on the 1800 block of Cooks Hill Road about 11:15 a.m. yesterday when an individual became uncooperative after being told by a security person he couldn’t bring a knife into a federal building. Anthony N. Parkins, 32, from Raymond, was arrested for obstruction of a federal law enforcement officer as well as outstanding King County warrants, according to the Centralia Police Department. He was taken to be booked in the federal detention center, Sgt. Carl Buster said.