Last week, Clark County Fire District 6 won the coveted Washington Fire Commissioners Association Management Excellence Award. It’s given to the District that judges deem performed best in Operations, Logistics, Finances, Public Outreach, and more. The judges are not in the fire service, rather they are impartial professionals from other public and private organizations.
- PUB DATE: 10/29/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Clark County Today

Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One says it needs to make some changes to keep up with the growing community it serves. Over the past decade, Gig Harbor's population has grown more than 16 percent, and during that same time Gig Harbor Fire says its call volume has increased by more than half. To keep up with the growing demand will require a number of changes, the agency says, including renovating or replacing aging fire district stations and reconsidering firefighter health and training.
- PUB DATE: 10/29/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Gig Harbor Patch

Call after call, shift after shift, over the course of her 20+ year career as an EMT, Brandy Tarala has seen trauma she cannot forget. "Most of our problems are temporary, but these scenes, these accidents we respond to, that's permanent. It's going to last forever," Tarala said Thursday. "The things we see on a day-to-day basis are horrific.
- PUB DATE: 10/28/2021 7:39:09 PM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6 Spokane

The city of Columbus (OH) hopes to build a 25,000-square-foot, $12.7 million fire station near New Albany in the hopes of getting additional coverage, reports dispatch.com.

Officials have proposed building Station 36 on a 3.7-acre plot of city-owned property at the southeast corner of Central College and Harlem roads, the report says. There is no address yet, as the city has not obtained a building permit.

The facility would house 30 firefighters and at least one engine and an EMS vehicle, officials say. Construction would begin in 2023 and take between 18 and 24 months.

The station is part of the city’s proposed $1.26 billion capital-improvements budget up for a final vote November 1.

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Historical 688-acre property undamaged following intense wildfire

Clayton, MO 28 October 2021 – The Reagan Ranch in Santa Barbara, California, is now safe from the Alisal Fire, which has burned more than 17,000 acres. The Young Americas Foundation, owners of the Reagan Ranch, took a proactive approach to protecting the Ranch from wildfire earlier this year when they treated the 688-acre property with PHOS-CHEK^® FORTIFY^® long-term fire retardant. Produced by Perimeter Solutions, who provided the retardant at no cost, PHOS-CHEK FORTIFY is a ground-based long-term fire retardant that is formulated, so that one application provides protection from wildfires that will continue to remain effective even after a significant rain event. With the Alisal Fire nearly contained, PHOS-CHEK FORTIFY is being credited as part of the solution that saved the Ranch from damage.

PHOS-CHEK FORTIFY helps render vegetation and other fuels where it’s applied nonflammable. The long-term fire retardant is formulated to have extended durability and greater adherence to vegetation and other fuels to provide protection from wildfires that will continue to remain effective even after a significant rain event. Unlike retardant dropped from aircraft, which is colored red to help pilots track where the retardant is dropped, the PHOS-CHEK FORTIFY solution is clear.

This past July, a team from Perimeter Solutions applied thousands of gallons of PHOS-CHEK FORTIFY to areas of the Ranch that were considered at high-risk from wildfire damage. The company left two additional totes of retardant in the event that it was needed, and the extra stock of PHOS-CHEK FORTIFY proved to be valuable as the Alisal Fire continued to grow in intensity over the past couple of weeks.

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“Although we have invested a lot in our fire abatement systems at Rancho del Cielo, we wanted to take an even more proactive approach to protecting the property from wildfires, which present the greatest threat to the future of the Reagan Ranch,” says Andrew Coffin, Vice President of Young America’s Foundation and Director of the Reagan Ranch. “Since the Alisal Fire started to grow in intensity, planes hav