LEWISTON – The Lewiston Fire Department was dispatched to a structure fire at 3110 9th Street at 10:15 a.m. Christmas morning. First arriving crews found heavy smoke coming from the front door and fire from a window at the rear of the building.
Crews knocked down the fire in about 15 minutes but remained on the scene for 3 hours to finish the overhaul by removing the metal roof and exposing burning material underneath.
The department responded with three structural engines, three ambulances, 2 chief officers, and 1 fire inspector, totaling 18 personnel. Wheatland Fire Department also responded for mutual aid with 4 personnel. There were no citizen or firefighter injuries.
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The cause of the fire is currently under investigation. The estimated damage to the structure and contents is $50,000.
Cort Dennison, one of the University of Washington’s more decorated linebackers over the past decade and a half, has joined Thomas Ford’s new Idaho coaching staff as its defensive coordinator, according to ESPN’s Pete Thamel.
Dennison, 35, comes to the Vandals from Missouri State, where he was the defensive coordinator for one seasons for the FCS soon to be FBS program.
Considered one of college football’s rising assistant coaches and a proven recruiter, Dennison has been trying to rebuild his career since getting fired at Louisville in 2021 while serving the second of two stints with the Cardinals.
Sources: Cort Dennison has accepted the job as the defensive coordinator at Idaho. He was last the inside LB coach at Missouri State. He’s worked as an assistant at Louisville for two stints. He’s worked on staffs at Utah in 2023 and coached outside LBs at Oregon in 2018.
According to reports, he was involved in a domestic dispute with another Louisville athletic department employee in which all allegations against him later were withdrawn.
A Salt Lake City native, Dennison went home and worked at Utah in 2023 as a defensive quality control coach for Kyle Whittingham.
For Louisville, he joined an ACC team headed up by coach Bobby Petrino in 2014-17 and again in 2019-21 for coach Scott Satterfield, holding a variety of assignments that included co-defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach.
Peter Sirmon, former UW linebackers coach in 2012-13 and now the California defensive coordinator, worked with Dennison as the Louisville DC in 2017.
Dennison spent the 2018 season with Oregon as its linebackers coach.
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Cort Dennison douses UW coach Steve Sarkisian with Gatorade after a 19-7 victory over Nebraska in the 2010 Holiday Bowl. / Kirby Lee-Imagn Images
As a player, Dennison was recruited to the UW in 2007 by Tyrone Willingham’s staff. By 2011, the 6-foot-1, 234-pound linebacker was a team captain for Steve Sarkisian, a 30-game starter and a second-team All-Pac-12 selection who topped the conference in tackles with 128.
Dennison finished with 15 tackles in his final Husky outing, a 67-56 loss in the Alamo Bowl to Baylor and Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Robert Griffin III.
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