PHOTOS: Sometimes Fire Departments have some really cool tools at their disposal. This one, from the Town of Hermon Fire Department's Facebook page, caught my eye. So I reached out to Hermon Fire Chief Cody Sullivan to get the skinny on this member of Hermon's rescue fleet, the rescue-boggan, also known as the "snowbulance".
- PUB DATE: 1/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WQCB-FM 106.5 Brewer

PHOTOS: Everett Firefighters had to rescue two people trapped in a second-floor unit at the Riverdale Apartments in the 1800 block of Chestnut after fire broke out around 12:30 AM Thursday morning. The two were unable to escape and were brought out by firefighters on a ladder run to a back bedroom of the fire unit by arriving crews.
- PUB DATE: 1/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: My Everett News

A team with Tacoma Fire rescued two people from a vehicle that drove off a steep embankment in the 6600 block of Marinera Street Tuesday afternoon. One person was safely raised to the street by 4:30 p.m. The second was raised to the road just before 5 p.m. Neither was seriously injured, according to Tacoma Fire.
- PUB DATE: 1/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle

Legislation sponsored by Rep. Peter Abbarno, R-Centralia, and Rep. Dan Griffey, R-Allyn, would provide a new grant funding source for rural fire departments whose buildings and equipment are inadequate to meet the fire safety needs of their communities. House Bill 1929 would establish a competitive grant program under the state Department of Commerce to award funding of up to $2 million to local governments in rural counties for capital projects that would improve fire protection services.
- PUB DATE: 1/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Centralia Chronicle - Metered Site

This week marks two years since COVID-19 changed lives in Washington State, across the country and throughout the world. On Jan. 19, 2020, a Snohomish County man in his 30s went to an urgent care clinic with symptoms of pneumonia and was taken to Everett's Providence Regional Medical Center to be treated.
- PUB DATE: 1/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13 Seattle