CITY VOTES TO TURN OFF NAPAVINE FIRE DEPARTMENT’S ROOFTOP SIREN
• The siren that sounds when Napavine firefighters get a call may be silenced after city council members last night voted unanimously to amend the city’s noise ordinance. Mayor Nick Bozarth says the move was prompted by the fire department’s roof top “air raid” siren which broke it’s several-year silence the morning after the department’s November levy failure. The fire department has told the city they began using the siren to clear traffic for outgoing emergency vehicles, according to Bozarth. The restriction took the fire department by surprise, according to a news release this morning from Lewis County Fire District 5. Lt. Laura Hanson wrote the department was “not afforded the courtesy of notification of the drafting of the ordinance.” Hanson wrote the district remains committed an acceptable resolution to the issue. Bozarth notes the city thinks lights and sirens on the emergency vehicles are sufficient.
GUN, SAFE AMONG ITEMS TAKEN IN RANDLE BURGLARY
• Somebody broke into a Randle area home yesterday and made off with a safe, a revolver and other valuables totaling more than $1,200, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy called to the 300 block of Cline Road was told it happened sometime between 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. yesterday, the sheriff’s office reported. Among the missing items were a fireproof Sentry brand safe, a .357 Smith and Wesson, an HP laptop computer, a digital camera and several necklaces, Chief Deputy Stacy Brown said. A door was damaged as well, Brown said.
THEFTS
• Police were called about 1 p.m. yesterday to the 1600 block of South Gold Street in Centralia to a reported car theft. A red 1992 Geo Metro was taken sometime overnight, according to the Centralia Police Department. Its license plate reads 144 ZMO.
• Centralia police took a report of a vehicle prowl about 3:30 p.m. yesterday from the 300 block of N Street. Missing were 10 CDs, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Centralia police took a theft report from an individual about 2 p.m. yesterday at the 600 block of South Tower Avenue. When the victim came out of the store, his bicycle and backpack were missing, according to the Centralia Police Department.
DRUGS
• Chehalis police yesterday arrested arrested a Chehalis woman for allegedly dealing heroin. Stacy L. Cook was arrested at her home for two counts of delivery of heroin, in connection with a previously investigated case, according to the Chehalis Police Department. She was booked into the Lewis County Jail.
DUI ARREST MADE FOLLOWING CENTRALIA COLLISION
• Centralia police called to a collision about 9 p.m. last night arrested a Rochester man for driving under the influence. Nobody was injured in the wreck at Johnson Road and West Reynolds Avenue, according to the Centralia Police Department. Daniel P. Christiensen, 56, was arrested, according to police.