Tag Archives: firefighter

Landing on One of Two Engines

By Matt Zimmerman | Published: June 4, 2009
Wednesday afternoon I heard scattered radio traffic come across the scanner in the newsroom. All I knew was that several fire engines and medics were being dispatched to the airport. I waited just long enough to hear that a twin-engine aircraft was flying with only one functioning engine and was going to attempt to land [...]
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Breaking News: Semi-Exposed Living Room

By Matt Zimmerman | Published: May 27, 2009
Remodeling isn’t Jerry LeGrand’s thing. After a semi-truck and rock truck collided on the highway outside his home this morning he isn’t left with much of a choice. LeGrand had just finished repairing his white picket fence from an accident months earlier after a passenger car crashed through the fence and into his yard and porch. [...]
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The hardest part of my job

By Matt Zimmerman | Published: March 31, 2009
I’ve held off on posting this for a while. I first started writing it the night of a fatal RV fire in Walla Walla that claimed the life of three people inside. I then ignored it for a while as I processed some of what I witnessed that night and I didn’t need to relive [...]
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