Opinion ID: 2629737
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Heading: Regular Duties

Text: First, the estate argues that diving was one of Hauber's normal duties as a city fire fighter. Hauber was a member of the fire department's Technical Rescue Team, which is trained to do still water and swift water rescue. However, diving is not a normal duty of the Yakima City Fire Department. The estate does provide some evidence that underwater and enclosed space rescue may have been performed by Yakima fire fighters, which may have been sufficient to overcome summary judgment had Hauber's death occurred within the fire district on a fire fighting mission. We need not decide this because Hauber fails to meet the second prong of the test; it is undisputed that the rescue at Roza Irrigation District was 20 miles outside the Yakima City Fire Department's territorial jurisdiction. Hauber was not performing his regular duties within his normal geographic work area; therefore, we reject this argument and turn to the estate's other contentions.