The Valley Regional Fire Authority responded to 216 calls for service between Dec. 14 and 20, among them the following:
Dec. 14
Aid call: 12:47 p.m., (Auburn). Firefighters helped a man who was complaining of chest pain, King County Medics evaluated him, and a private ambulance transported him to MultiCare Auburn Medical Center (MAMC).
Dec. 15
Gas leak: 7:50 a.m., (Lea Hill). While construction workers were installing a new water line at Green River College, they accidentally struck a 2-inch gas line, a mishap that drew VRFA firefighters on the trot. Until GRC facility personnel could shut down the gas line, they allowed no one into two buildings adjacent to the leak. Somebody summoned Puget Sound Energy to the scene to evaluate necessary repairs.
Dec. 16
Water evacuation: 12:42 p.m., (Pacific). Firefighters responded to an older woman who had driven her car past “road closed” signs into a designated flood area. Firefighters used ropes and water safety equipment to get the woman out of there and transported her to MAMC for further evaluation and treatment of possible hypothermia.
Dec. 17
Aid call: 3:08 p.m., (South Auburn). Having responded to an Auburn woman who had been weak for days, firefighters evaluated her and a private ambulance motored her to MAMC.
Dec. 18
Aid call: 4:41 p.m., (Algona). ValleyCom dispatched firefighters to help a middle-aged woman with a diabetic problem, King County Medics evaluated her, and a private ambulance scooted her off to a local hospital.
Dec. 19
Motor vehicle crash: 1:04 a.m., (Auburn). Firefighters and King County Medic One responded to a multiple-car accident spread over a quarter-mile stretch of Highway 18 near the Auburn Way South ramps. Firefighters extricated one man from his overturned vehicle and a private ambulance transported him to Valley Medical Center. A private ambulance also transported to MAMC the young man who’d been at the wheel of the second vehicle.
Dec. 20
Aid call: 11:53 p.m., (Lakeland Hills). Firefighters finished treating a woman who was suffering excruciating leg pain, and a private ambulance transported her to MAMC for further evaluation.
