Discarded cigarette butts in a planter sparked a fire at a SeaTac apartment building early Wednesday, officials said. The incident unfolded just before 2 a.m. when a resident at the Willow Lake Apartments spotted flames on the ground floor deck of a neighboring apartment. The resident called 911 and then ran across the courtyard and pounded on the door of the neighbor's apartment, waking up the woman who lives there.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 100

An award from a $10,000 fund is being offered for information that leads to the arrest or conviction of those responsible for two fires set Monday at Jehovah Witness Centers in Olympia and Tumwater. Around 8:20 a.m. Monday, Olympia firefighters were called to the Kingdom Hall in Olympia for a fire.
- PUB DATE: 3/20/2018 10:06:47 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

We often see devastating disasters, car wrecks, water rescues, and shootings on TV... but in real life, the emotional weight behind it is entirely different. For firefighters, talking about what they see on the job isn't their favorite topic. It's a tragedy that made national headlines in Spokane County: four students shot and one of them killed at Freeman High School.
- PUB DATE: 3/20/2018 7:29:26 PM - SOURCE: NBCRightNow.com

The Northwest region's incident management teams are getting ready for fire season. 10 teams from Alaska,Oregon and Washington all joined the annual pre-wildfire season meeting in Yakima. It gives responders a chance to review what they can expect in the season ahead and prepare what they need. In 2017 the teams responded 35 times and this year they hope it's more controllable.
- PUB DATE: 3/20/2018 6:43:07 PM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

No Spokane city employee could earn more than $182,000 annually under a package of changes to City Hall’s budgeting process being proposed by Council President Ben Stuckart. “We’re not the private sector, we’re the public sector,” said Stuckart, who doesn’t expect a vote on the measure until next month at the earliest.
- PUB DATE: 3/20/2018 6:34:36 AM - SOURCE: Spokane Spokesman-Review