Posted: Jan 27, 2016
Faced with a tight budget and an ever-increasing number of emergency calls, East Pierce Fire and Rescue commissioners voted unanimously on Jan. 19 to place an emergency medical services levy lid lift measure on the April 26 ballot.
Washington voters approved the EMS levy in 2011, allowing fire districts to tax 50 cents for every $1,000 in assessed property value.
- PUB DATE: 1/27/2016 1:00:17 PM - SOURCE: Bonney Lake-Sumner Courier-Herald
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Posted: Jan 27, 2016
Faced with a tight budget and an ever-increasing number of emergency calls, East Pierce Fire and Rescue commissioners voted unanimously on Jan. 19 to place an emergency medical services levy lid lift measure on the April 26 ballot.
Washington voters approved the EMS levy in 2011, allowing fire districts to tax 50 cents for every $1,000 in assessed property value.
- PUB DATE: 1/27/2016 1:00:17 PM - SOURCE: Bonney Lake-Sumner Courier-Herald
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Posted: Jan 27, 2016
The Bluffs apartments, the site of the fatal fire on New Year’s Eve, had no fire alarms, a violation of city codes.
The city of Everett has ordered the property owner to install fire alarms on every building where people are now living.
The alarms that need to be installed are the type that activate when someone pulls a lever.
- PUB DATE: 1/27/2016 12:43:13 PM - SOURCE: Everett Herald
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Posted: Jan 27, 2016
The Bluffs apartments, the site of the fatal fire on New Year’s Eve, had no fire alarms, a violation of city codes.
The city of Everett has ordered the property owner to install fire alarms on every building where people are now living.
The alarms that need to be installed are the type that activate when someone pulls a lever.
- PUB DATE: 1/27/2016 12:43:13 PM - SOURCE: Everett Herald
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Posted: Jan 27, 2016
A year after Interior Secretary Sally Jewell shifted the national approach to fighting wildfires across a wide swath of sagebrush country in the West, her strategy is turning out to be one of the most significant federal land policy changes in some 80 years, public land experts, outdoor enthusiasts and scientists say.
- PUB DATE: 1/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: idaho state journal
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