MLFD gets grant for hazardous response team

MOSES LAKE — it’s a Thursday afternoon in the Safeway parking lot, and a trio of Moses Lake Fire Department firefighters stands around an old white Cadillac. There’s the smell of gasoline in the air, and the firefighters have scattered coarse diatomaceous earth — basically cat litter — to contain a spill caused by a drip from the car’s gas tank. “We’re not the hazardous materials team,” one MLFD firefighter says. “We’re still working on that.” ...