You know what sucks worse (physically, though perhaps not spiritually) than having to sit at a desk on a Friday afternoon and watch the carpet pill up? Getting trapped in a cement avalanche at work and needing the fire department to come dig you out. That's why we feel for this guy. He's okay now, but Seattlest's office faces the major street down which all the ambulances and cop cars raced on their way to this incident and we counted no fewer than four patrol cars and two ambulances scream past us in the last couple hours. That's a big fat hairy deal. more ›

A future firefighter, of course. Or rather, someone who had hoped to become a firefighter, because this guy can pretty much kiss his firefighting and law enforcement career goodbye. An 18-year-old trainee with the Bucoda Fire Department stole and totaled the small town's only ambulance early Saturday morning. more ›

The 76 gas station at the north end of Broadway is under a heavy lockdown at the moment--all the roads around, including Broadway, are blocked off. We heard from a guy directing traffic in a reflective orange vest--and therefore a quotable source--that someone ran over a pump. One of the FedEx Kinkos employees taking an enforced sunbreak on the curb told us that something had actually caught fire over there. ("Fire in building," says the Seattle 911 log.) There were a number of ambulances with people gathered around, but we're not sure if anyone was seriously hurt. more ›