Articles written by Jim Bostic

Jim Bostic, Ritzville Fire Chief|Updated May 1, 2014

Last week our community suffered a great loss with the fire at the Fairgrounds. I’m sure there will be many questions asked about the event, but one I think I have an answer for. Our city is equipped with two sirens, one located at the old Fire Station and the other in the City Park. During normal operations they will sound for one cycle at noon each day. In the event of an emergency we have the ability to cycle these sirens for two minutes. This alerts all our emergency service personnel to report to their assigned s...