The Valley Regional Fire Authority responded to 193 calls for service between June 11 and June 17, among them the following:

June 11

Aid call: 2:30 p.m., (Pacific). Firefighters helped an older woman who had fallen and a private ambulance carried her off to St. Francis Hospital.

June 12

Aid call: 10:48 a.m., (Auburn). Firefighters and King County Medics treated a man in cardiac arrest and medics transported him to Auburn Regional Medical Center.

June 13

Aid call: 1:49 p.m., (Lea Hill). A boy accidentally chainsawed the top of his foot, firefighters showed up to bandage the wound, and the kid’s mother drove him to a hospital.

June 14

Kitchen fire: 4:05 p.m., (Auburn). Firefighters hustling to a kitchen fire at a South Auburn apartment complex arrived to find that a neighbor had already snuffed out the fire. After determining that the fire was most sincerely dead, firefighters cleared the smoke. Nobody was hurt. Errant cooking was to blame.

June 15

Aid call: 2:25 p.m., (North Auburn). Firefighters and King County Medic One paramedics helped an unconscious male who may have overdosed on unknown medications, and medics transported him to ARMC.

June 16

Apartment fire: 3:05 a.m., (Pacific). Firefighters responding to a possible apartment fire found light smoke coming from a single apartment unit and an occupant trying to extinguish a small fire in the kitchen area with a portable fire extinguisher. Firefighters quickly put out the conflagration.  A fire investigation determined that the fire was accidental, the unanticipated consequence of an unattended cooking fire.

Accident: 1:17 p.m., (Algona). Firefighters responding to reports of a motorcycle vs. car accident found a single injured person. That person refused treatment, so firefighters left him or her at the scene with police.

June 17

Aid call: 12:19 p.m., (Auburn). Firefighters treated an elderly woman who’d been complaining of abdominal pain and nausea and a private ambulance took her off to ARMC.