Voters in Grant County Fire District 7, which includes the city of Soap Lake, will decide the fate of a proposal to increase the rate of the district’s property tax levy for fire service in the general election Nov. 7. The “levy lid lift” would set the levy rate at $1.30 per $1,000 of assessed property value.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2023 2:59:00 PM - SOURCE: Columbia Basin Herald - Metered Site

Fire officials battled a massive house fire in Roosevelt Wednesday morning. Authorities say flames broke out at around 4 a.m. on Catlin Avenue. Video shows fire officials battling the large flames that tore through the house. Officials determined that burning incense ignited a mattress in the basement of the home.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABC-TV ABC 7 New York

VIDEO: A Seattle Fire Department crew was inside the Ballard Fred Meyer when a security guard rushed to warn them about people rummaging through their fire truck in the parking lot. The firefighters noted the guard was "shaking" as he told them he had just been chased by a group of men after yelling at them in an attempt to interrupt the theft.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

VIDEO/PHOTOS: As night falls over El Paso on a spine-chilling Halloween, there sits El Paso Fire Station No. 9. “It's over 100 years old, and we are haunted," said Jesse Esterline, EPFD Firefighter at station No. 9. Now, this station isn't like most. It's home to one of the oldest ghost stories in the department's history.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFOX-TV FOX 14 El Paso

VIDEO: A Seattle Fire Department crew was inside the Ballard Fred Meyer when a security guard rushed to warn them about people rummaging through their fire truck in the parking lot. The firefighters noted the guard was "shaking" as he told them he had just been chased by a group of men after yelling at them in an attempt to interrupt the theft.
- PUB DATE: 11/1/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle