Fire District 8 is hosting an open house this weekend for Fire Service Day. The event features fun family activities as well demonstrations and station tours. 

Smokey the Bear will be there to say hi to the kids and the station will be doing two auto extraction demonstrations as well as fire extinguisher demonstrations. Firefighters and EMTs will be teaching CPR classes throughout the day. David's Pizza will be serving lunch from 11am-1pm. 

The open house will be held at Station 81, located at 6117 S. Palouse Highway, just east of the intersection of 57th and the Palouse Highway. Station 81 serves Moran Prairie, Glenrose, Valley View Hills, Hangman Hills, the Ridge at Hangman and Browns Mountain. 

Fire District 8 Open House, Saturday, May 11th, 10:00am-2:00pm.

AMR Spokane wants you to learn CPR, and on May 22nd they'll train you for free. 

AMR Spokane is joining American Medical Response teams across the nation to train as many people as possible in compression-only CPR. In partnership with Spokane Fire Department, Providence Health Care and Spokane Heart Rescue, AMR instructors will be teaching this life saving skill all day on May 22nd at the Spokane Arena. 

"While first responders often arrive on the scene of an emergency within minutes, we want to remind everyone that during a cardiac arrest, seconds can be critical," said Cathy St. Amand, Training Coordinator of AMR Spokane. 

Compression-only CPR only takes a few minutes to learn and can help keep a cardiac arrest victim alive until first responders can arrive. AMR hopes that this event will help make the community a safer place to live.

You can learn compression-only CPR at the Spokane Arena on May 22nd from 6am-7pm.

Zambia is one of the most peaceful countries in Africa, but it is also one of the poorest and has one of the world's most devastating HIV and AIDS epidemics. In the village of Zambezi, many of the people lack food to take with their medication, but students at Gonzaga University are working to change that.

Zambezi has a population of about 7,000, similar to Quincy, WA. Now, imagine if 83 percent of Quincy lived in extreme poverty, many of them were positive for HIV/AIDS, and the life expectancy was only 49. That is the reality for the people of Zambezi.

Across the country of Zambia antiretroviral medication is readily available, but the people of Zambezi are too poor to maintain the proper nutrition for the treatments to be effective. The impact goes beyond individual health.