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Updated at 7:26 p.m.
FIRE, FIRE, FIRE
• Members of West Thurston Regional Fire Authority joined other local firefighters late yesterday afternoon when a fire broke out in the Capitol Forest near the Cedar Creek Corrections Center. Crews were called around 5 p.m. to what was roughly five acres of heavy timer burning, according to Fire Lt. Rob Smith. It was approximately in the area of the D8000 Line, Smith said. As of 11:30 p.m. it stopped growing, he said. Personnel from the state Department of Natural Resources took over the incident but at least one tender was assisting them today with water, Smith said.
• Chehalis firefighters were called about 8 p.m. yesterday to a grass fire that began creeping up the side of a residence on the 700 block of Northwest Maryland Avenue. They were able to extinguish it before it got inside, according to the Chehalis Fire Department.
• Chehalis firefighters were called at about 8:30 p.m. yesterday to Yard Birds Mall for a small fire apparently caused by a light ballast overheating. It was in the northeast corner of the sprawling structure on the 2100 block of North National Avenue according to Fire Capt. Casey Beck.
• Chehalis firefighters were called just before 3:25 a.m. today for a residential structure fire on the 800 block of Northwest Ohio Avenue. “It turned out to be a porch on fire,” Fire Capt. Casey Beck said. The flames were quickly extinguished and did not spread, Beck said.
• Nobody was hurt but there was an estimated $3,000 damage from a cooking fire at a house on the 100 block of North Iron Street in Centralia. Riverside Fire Authority reported yesterday that the flames were out upon their arrival to the incident about 8:30 p.m. on Friday. It started on the stove and the burning dish was put in the kitchen sink but the plastic blinds on the window ignited, Capt. Tim Adolphsen wrote. There was some damage to upper cabinets and the window frame as well as some to lower cabinets when towels used to smother the flames fell to the floor, according to Adolphsen.
ROCK TOSS
• A 19-year-old Centralia woman was booked into the Lewis County Jail after an officer saw her throwing large rocks at passing vehicles along the 1300 block of Harrison Avenue at about noon yesterday, according to the Centralia Police Department. Shannon L. Wachter was arrested for attempted third-degree malicious mischief, according to police.
THEFT
• Police were called to the 100 block of West Bridge Street in Centralia about 12:15 p.m. yesterday about theft of a hood ornament, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• A backpack dropped onto a front porch and left unattended for short time on the 300 block of East Main Street in Centralia disappeared, according to a report made to police about 10:30 p.m. on Friday. It contained clothes, a purse with credit cards and money, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Police were called to the 2000 block of Borst Avenue where a female told them while she was swimming someone stole her backpack and cell phone, around 8 p.m. on Friday, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Someone stole fuel from vehicles parked at the 1600 block of South Gold Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police about 9 a.m. on Friday.
MORE THEFT
• Centralia police were called to the 1000 block of Eckerson Road in Centralia about 10:30 a.m. on Friday to take a report of the theft of cash from the business.
• An officer was called about 1 p.m. on Friday regarding money stolen from a bank account, associated with the 200 block of West Main Street in Centralia.
TICKET TIME
• Over a less than four hour period beginning late yesterday afternoon, officers in Centralia contacted six drivers – most for minor traffic violations – and learned they were driving with suspended licenses. Each was arrested without incident and then released, according to the Centralia Police Department.
DRUGS
• Just after 2 a.m. today, a Centralia officer contacted a driver for a minor traffic violation at Harrison Avenue near Interstate 5, discovered he had a warrant and then located unspecified controlled substances on him, according to the Centralia Police Department. David D. Marrs, age 25, was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
ON THE ROAD
• Officers responded a non-injury motorcycle versus vehicle accident at the 100 block of South Silver Street near the library in Centralia at about 8:50 p.m. on Friday.
• Two men were reportedly uninjured when their pickup truck ran off Interstate 5 about two miles south of Chehalis early this morning, striking a light post and the guard rail. It happened in the southbound lanes near the Labree Road interchange just before 7 a.m. today, according to the Washington State Patrol. The investigating trooper reports Jose R. Garcia-Roberto, 23, from Lakewood, and Jose D. Jimenez-Garcia, 28, from Kent, ran off into a field in the area . A police dog apprehended them, according to the state patrol. The 2001 Ford F150 pickup was described as totaled. Troopers were investigating the incident for possible driving under the influence, hit and run and obstructing, according to the state patrol.
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, misdemeanor assault, driving under the influence; responses for hit and run, collision on city street, collision on Interstate 5 … and more.