PHOTO: Emergency crews on the upper Bay will soon be able to respond to those tricky shallow-water rescues more easily and safely. The all-volunteer Susquehanna Hose Company (SHCo) in Havre de Grace just announced they’re getting a state-of-the-art airboat. It will be the department’s first vessel of this kind and the only airboat in service in the area.
- PUB DATE: 10/26/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chesapeake Bay Magazine

For the first time in the history of the Seattle Fire Department’s Acquired Structure Program, the department will conduct live-fire training at an apartment building. The training of current and new firefighter recruits at a vacant apartment building has been active in the 600 block of Second Avenue West between Oct.
- PUB DATE: 10/26/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle

In an ongoing effort to combat drug overdoses across the county, King County Public Health and Peer Seattle have teamed up and are providing people in Capitol Hill with access to a vending machine that provides Fentanyl testing strips and Narcan. The vending machine also supplies safe sex kits. The vending machine has been at Peer Seattle for a few months, and director Christopher Archiopoli said people have been using it daily.
- PUB DATE: 10/26/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle

After an unseasonably warm October, the Cascades are finally getting their first taste of precipitation. Along the Skykomish River on Highway 2, there is now an increased risk of debris flow and landslides. Further up the road, the Stevens Pass Ski Area received a dusting of snow. Even with all this wet weather, the Bolt Creek Fire continues to burn.
- PUB DATE: 10/26/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13 Seattle

Dozens of women turned out for a weekend of workouts, training and camaraderie last weekend at a Women in Firefighting/EMS event in Federal Way. Hosted by South King Fire & Rescue at Station 68, just up the street from Lakota Middle School, the women received hands-on lessons from instructors from more than dozen King County agencies and learned what to expect from a career in the fire service.
- PUB DATE: 10/25/2022 12:25:00 PM - SOURCE: Federal Way Mirror