After starting and stopping more than two weeks ago, city crews have begun finishing work to clear the homeless encampment along Fourth Avenue across from Seattle City Hall. In a statement from the city, Parks and Recreation staff posted a removal notice Wednesday at 6 a.m. to have all belongings and tents moved from Fourth Avenue between James Street and Columbia Street by 8 a.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle

Clallam County Fire District 3’s fire chiefs and administrators are planning a move west next month as Station 34 will be changing some offices into bedrooms. District 3 Fire Chief Ben Andrews this week signed a lease for office space on Carlsborg Road across from the Carlsborg Post Office to move the district’s three chiefs and three administrative staff from Station 34.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sequim Gazette

The city of Redding voted to apply for a $25 million bond to make improvements to some fire stations, reports actionnewsnow.com.

The funds would also add a new Station 9 near the Shasta View Drive intersection east of Redding, the report says.

Officials say the next step is an assessment from all stations to figure out renovation costs. The Redding Fire Department says it will give appraisals at the March 15 city council meeting.

Five people were taken to a MN hospital after a semi crashed into a Blue Earth fire apparatus and a passenger vehicle early Sunday morning on Interstate 90.

The driver of the semi, a 41-year-old Solomon Pio Sagot, was traveling east in Jo Daviess Township, Faribault County, at 2:17 a.m. with passenger 24-year-old Kristen Kaye Eaglestar, State Patrol says.

Around the 117-mile post, on snowy and icy roads, the semi crashed into the two vehicles: the fire apparatus and a 2019 Honda Van, driven by 29-year-old Adam Joseph Beckett.

The driver of the fire truck, 46-year-old Corey Bruce Survis; all three occupants of the van; and Sagot were all taken to the hospital.

Alcohol is not believed to be a factor in the crash.

Two St. John’s Regional Fire Department firefighters were injured after their rescue apparatus went off the road, reports Saltwire.

The accident, which also cracked a utility pole, happened around 6:45 p.m. on Beaumont Hamel Way as the department was responding to a vehicle crash, the report says.

Freezing rain had been falling for a few hours prior, so the unsalted roads were slippery—as evidenced by the original accident being a car that skidded off the road in the same area, according to the report.

After their crash, the injured firefighters contacted the trailing apparatus and warned them not to travel down the hill; they then trekked to a waiting ambulance atop the hill, the report notes, and were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

There’s no word as to the extent of the original crash which brought the firefighters.