Southwest Skagit County is different today than it was when new Fire District 3 Chief Chad DeVlieger grew up in the area. The makeup of fire district volunteers has changed, too, said district Commissioner Matt Stratton. “It’s getting harder and harder for us to find volunteers these days, especially during the daytime because most people aren’t farmers anymore,” he said.
- PUB DATE: 1/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Go Skagit

PHOTOS: A restaurant fire has firefighters up and working early Friday in Redmond. The one-alarm fire started in the 16100 block of NE 87th St. in Redmond around 4:30 a.m. Firefighters tell KOMO News the fire started in a restaurant at a strip mall with five other businesses. Two businesses are completely destroyed and three others are being assessed.
- PUB DATE: 1/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

Clark County Fire District 6 announced the death of a longtime firefighter and paramedic, Joe Killian, Thursday. Killian served the district for 26 years before retiring 4 years ago. Shortly after his retirement, Killian was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer that is common among firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 1/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPTV-TV FOX 12 Portland

A report from the Department of Commerce estimates that Washington and Idaho lost between $1.35 and $2.6 billion in 2021 because of weather disasters. In the Pacific Northwest as a whole (including Oregon) that number reaches at least $3 billion. Of the four costliest weather disasters in 2021, the Northwest was impacted by two of them.
- PUB DATE: 1/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

VIDEO: A teenager from Lewis County, Wash. was given an award for bravery, after she got her 3-year-old and 4-year-old sisters and the family dog out of their burning home, braving the flames to save lives. Haylee Laur, 15, made the heroic rescues Dec. 27. Their home in Winlock was destroyed, but Laur saved multiple lives that day.
- PUB DATE: 1/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KREM-TV CBS 2 Spokane