Employee injured during fire at Grand Coulee Dam
<span>The Keys plant is the building at the bottom of the photo, the irrigation conduit leading to the canal feeds water into Banks Lake at the top of the photo.</span>
GRAND COULEE — A Bureau of Reclamation employee was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for injuries received during a fire Monday in the John W. Keys III Pump Generating Plant at Grand Coulee Dam.
Daniel McCulloch is still at Harborview Medical Center, according to a prepared statement from the US Bureau of Reclamation. He has worked for the bureau since 2008, and no information regarding his condition has been released, bureau spokesperson Lynne Brougher said.
Bureau employee, Thomas Leitner, was treated locally for smoke inhalation and released, Brougher said.
For more information, read Wednesday’s Columbia Basin Herald.