🌱 How NLFD’s new training and staffing could affect Rathdrum response times

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• How NLFD’s new training and staffing could affect Rathdrum response times

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Weather forecast:

• Tuesday: Breezy with periods of rain, with a high of 48 and low of 37 degrees.
• Wednesday: Windy; snow and rain, temps: high: 41, low: 32.
• Thursday: Cloudy, with a high of 42 and low of 37 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• NLFD conducts live fire training in Garwood area (cdapress.com) — Northern Lakes Fire District’s Station 2 in Rathdrum is part of a broader push to improve response times to northern communities, highlighted by a full day of live fire training in the Garwood area. Crews burned a donated home in six controlled exercises while the district works through litigation delaying a new Garwood station and prepares to add a fourth engine company and more firefighters.
   

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📸 Around Rathdrum

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Rathdrum

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday December 20

• Family Libratory: Rathdrum (FREE)
  16320 ID-41, Rathdrum
  7:00 pm

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Other local events

Wednesday December 17

• Christmas on Prairie at Northland Nursery
  Northland Nursery , 8093 W. Prairie Ave , Post Falls

Thursday December 18

• Chamber Monthly Networking Luncheon (December 2025)
  Shepherd of the Hills Church , 13541 W Hwy, 53 , Rathdrum
  11:30 am
• LHS Winter Concert
  LHS Commons
  5:30 pm

Friday December 19

• Christmas on Prairie at Northland Nursery
  Northland Nursery , 8093 W. Prairie Ave , Post Falls

Saturday December 20

• Park n Rec 3rd-4th Basketball - GYM
  Lakeland Junior High Rathdrum, ID 83858
  7:30 am

Sunday December 21

• Christmas on Prairie at Northland Nursery
  Northland Nursery , 8093 W. Prairie Ave , Post Falls

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🗓 Events Nearby

Tuesday December 16

• Stay & Play (FREE)
  8385 N Government Wy , Hayden
  6:00 pm
• Kindergarten Boot Camp (FREE)
  8385 N Government Wy , Hayden Lake
  6:30 pm

Wednesday December 17

• Christmas on Prairie at Northland Nursery
  Northland Nursery , 8093 W. Prairie Ave , Post Falls

Thursday December 18

• Networking, Business & Connections 12-18-25
  Best Western CdA Inn , 506 W. Appleway Ave. , CdA
  11:00 am
• SEE Into Our Future at Safe Passage
  Safe Passage , 850 N. 4th St. , CDA
  3:00 pm

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• A Drop In The Potion — (208) 500-1867
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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Our two grey frenchies got out in hayden north on Telluride Loop.
  Their names are hank and Phillip please let me know if you have seen them, have please!!! Our family is destroyed (Nextdoor Atlas)
• I went up to USFS land near Fernan this weekend.
  I was extremely disappointed to see the garbage left in the area. Broken glass, cans, plastic left behind. The pictures don’t begin to accurately… (Nextdoor Hayden - Meyer)

• Domino's Pizza posted a job opening for Assistant Manager (07318) - 15640 W. Hwy 41 in Rathdrum. Apply here.
• Taco Bell posted a job opening for Restaurant Assistant Manager in Rathdrum. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Rathdrum here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Hayden

• Citylink's future in question (cdapress.com)

Post Falls

• PREP BOYS BASKETBALL: Post Falls finishes road trip with win (cdapress.com)
• New Local Market to open in Post Falls (cdapress.com)

Coeur d'Alene

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-- The Patch AM Team

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