Just 8% of full-time firefighters in the United States are women, according to a 2018 report by the National Fire Protection Association. Of the large volunteer firefighter forces in the U.S., 11% are women. Fire agencies in the Spokane area are also male dominated. At the Spokane Fire Department, 11 of the approximately 326 firefighters are women.
- PUB DATE: 10/3/2021 6:05:47 AM - SOURCE: Spokane Spokesman-Review - Metered Site

Quick-acting school staff and firefighters prevented a terrarium fire from spreading inside a Woodland classroom Friday morning, saving the resident snake. Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue crews were dispatched at 5:31 a.m. to North Fork Elementary School, 2250 Lewis River Road, after a school staff member discovered smoke inside the building and called 911, according to a news release from the fire agency.
- PUB DATE: 10/2/2021 7:48:02 AM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian

The partnership between Eastside Fire and Rescue (EF&R) and Woodinville Fire and Rescue (WF&R) solidified today as EF&R officially began providing emergency services to the Woodinville Community. The ten-year contract for service was approved in July by both agencies’ governing bodies and labor organizations.
- PUB DATE: 10/1/2021 1:02:36 PM - SOURCE: Mercer Island Reporter

Several fire departments across Delta County (MI) Wednesday received about $1.1 million in donated equipment via the From Our Firehouse to Yours program, reports dailypress.net. The equipment was donated by departments in the Lower Peninsula.

Retired firefighters doled out equipment as they travelled caravan-style in a box truck and three trailers to The Pantry Truck Stop in Rapid River, down Bayshore Drive into Gladstone, and down 9th Street to Lakeshore Drive before coming up to the Besse Fire Hall, the report says.

The program delivers donated fire equipment to departments in need, and this was its seventh delivery in the last five years. All but one of those seven were made to the Upper Peninsula, according to the report. Officials estimate that roughly $5.1 million worth of gear has received new life through the program.

The Onset (MA) Fire Department officially opened it’s new fire station on September 29, according to a report published by the Wareham Week.

The newspaper reported the new fire station is on Sand Pond Road, behind the old Salvation Army building, leaving the old one empty on East Central Avenue.

According to the newspaper, the new fire station has a few features to make the environment safer for firefighters, including air scrubbers to clean the air where the apparatus are parked and a designated storage area for protective gear to contain contaminants.

Additionally, the new fire station is primarily on one-floor, making the building more accessible, according to the newspaper, which also reported that an open house will be held in the future for the public to view the new building.