PHOTOS: Dating back to 1938, the New Deal-financed Austin Central Fire Station No. 1 sitting at 401 East Fifth Street on the northwest corner of Brush Square is an unlikely gem of downtown architecture, one of the few really striking examples of the Art Deco subset known as Moderne or Streamline Moderne in the city’s stock of public buildings — unfortunately, great vintage design doesn’t necessarily mesh with the facilities requirements of modern firefighting, meaning the Austin Fire Department has tolerated a growing list of frustrations with operating out of the the aging structure despite its obvious historic merit to those of us not actually fighting the fires.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: TOWERS Austin

Crews worked to knock down a rental house fire five miles south Spokane. That fire fully blocked the southbound lanes of SR 195 for several hours. According to Spokane County Fire District 3, one woman was in the house at the time, but she got out safely. She is now being put up in a hotel by the Red Cross.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

Firefighters from East Jefferson Fire Rescue quickly doused a fire in a home in Port Hadlock-Irondale Saturday morning. Arriving firefighters saw smoke coming from the attic of the home on Rhody Drive near its intersection with Ness' Corner Road. Units from East Jefferson Fire Rescue arrived at the scene at 11:41 a.
- PUB DATE: 12/21/2020 1:03:46 PM - SOURCE: Port Townsend Leader

Clayco Construction personnel donated $5,000 worth of toys and $1,150 for the Grant County Professional Firefighters IAFF Local 4418 (Grant County Fire District 3) to pay it forward. “This is something Clayco does every year in some capacity,” said Michelle Talley, firefighter EMT. The fire district turned the toys over to the Quincy Valley Lions Club to disperse wrapped toys to dozens of families.
- PUB DATE: 12/21/2020 10:24:50 AM - SOURCE: KPQ-AM 560

The City of Elma, Fire District 5 Leaders’ Approved a Pre-Post Annexation Interlocal Agreement. Elma can annex its Fire and EMS services together in April 2021. Since 2008 the City of Elma has contracted with Grays Harbor Fire District 5 for Emergency Medical Services and both agencies have entered into multiple Interlocal Agreements since then merging recruitment, training, and automatic aid responses to emergency calls.
- PUB DATE: 12/21/2020 7:41:50 AM - SOURCE: KBKW 1450-AM & 94.7-FM