Sirens: Daily police and fire roundup

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Missing metal elk. / Courtesy photo

MISSING ELK LIKENESS

• Centralia police were called about 11 a.m. yesterday to the 200 block of South Tower Avenue where sometime during the night, someone stole a large metal elk statue from the Elks Lodge.

PORCH PILFERING

• Centralia police took a report yesterday of the theft of two light bulbs from a porch at the 200 block of North Tower Avenue.

OTHER THEFT

• A license plate was stolen on Monday night from the 100 block of Virginia Drive in Centralia, according to a report made to police yesterday.

• Chehalis police were called about 7:50 a.m. yesterday by an individual who said she left her wallet in a cart at Safeway and when she went back, it was gone. The black clutch-type wallet had not been turned in, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

• Chehalis police took a report yesterday from a person who said their credit card had been used fraudulently at the 1100 block of South Market Boulevard.

POSSIBLE BREAK-IN

• Police were called yesterday by a woman who reported that she woke up to the sounds of footsteps in her home on the 10 block of Southwest 17th Street on Friday. The case was filed for informational purposes only as there were no leads to follow up on, according to the Chehalis Police Department.

CAR PROWL

• Centralia police were called at 8:10 a.m. yesterday to the 700 block of Ham Hill Road where an unlocked vehicle had been rummaged through during the night. Nothing appeared to have been stolen, according to the Centralia Police Department.

ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD

• The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reports today they arrested a 45-year-old man from Roy for driving under the influence after responding about 8:20 p.m. on Monday for a vehicle into a ditch at the 100 block of Salkum Road. William L. Hoyt was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the sheriff’s office.

INDUSTRIAL EXPLOSION

• There was smoke, flames and an explosion at a plywood manufacturing plant on the 100 block of Maurin Road in Chehalis yesterday evening but nobody was injured, according to Lewis County Fire District 6. District spokesperson DJ Hammer said crews were called at 6:18 p.m. and then again at 7:24 p.m., the second time concluding the explosion was caused by a leak inside a boiler that caused heat and pressure to build up. They confirmed there was no active fire and Hammer said he didn’t know the dollar amount of the damage that occurred.

AND MORE

• And, as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, trespassing, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license, protection order violation, operating motor vehicle without required ignition interlock device; responses for alarm, dispute, civil issue, vehicle collision, disorderly person, suspicious circumstances … and more among 165 calls for local law enforcement and / or fire-emergency medical services in the 24-hour period ending about 7 a.m.

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