PARAMEDICS, AMBULANCE, DELIVER NEWBORN TO HOSPITAL
• Centralia firefighters called at 7:35 p.m. yesterday to a house on West Maple Street for a woman in labor delivered a baby girl there at 7:40 p.m. “We had absolutely no time to prepare or anything, we literally walked in and ‘caught it’,” Firefighter-paramedic Jennifer Ternan said this morning. It was pretty straightforward and uncomplicated for her and Firefighter-paramedic Steve Lamb, according to Ternan. The mom’s due date was yesterday, although she wasn’t planning an at-home birth. An AMR ambulance took the mother, baby and paramedics to the labor and delivery unit of Providence Centralia Hospital where “mom and baby are doing extremely well,” Ternan said.
DOG OWNER ARRESTED FOR ATTACKING CAR THAT RAN OVER HIS PET
• A 19-year-old upset when his dog was struck by a car in Centralia yesterday was arrested for misdemeanor assault after he reportedly kicked a dent into the side of the vehicle and broke out the driver’s side window. It happened around 2:50 p.m. on the 1000 block of Mellen Street, according to the Centralia Police Department. Police reported that the two occupants of the car were “showered” with glass. Aaron J. Alexander was cited and then released, according to police.
STOLEN COMPUTERS FOUND IN PORT ORCHARD
• Centralia police detectives arrested a suspect in Port Orchard yesterday they say broke into a business on the 1000 block of Johnson Road and stole computers. Finger prints at the scene led them to Marc J. Strickland, 42, of Port Orchard, where they recovered the property, according to the Centralia Police Department.
VANDALISM
• Chehalis police were called about 8:25 a.m. yesterday to Southeast Adams Avenue where a window had been broken out of a vehicle sometime in the night.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter