A San Pablo man was arrested on suspicion of striking an on-duty firefighter with his vehicle in Petaluma early Saturday, police said. Petaluma police responded at about 3:11 a.m. to a call from their city’s fire department reporting that one of their firefighters “had just been intentionally stuck by a vehicle,” police said.
- PUB DATE: 10/26/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Richmond Standard

It could have been a disaster for the Snohomish County 911 dispatch center in September. After working 1½ shifts in a room with other radio dispatchers, in the glass-walled building that’s like a nerve center for all first-responders in Snohomish County, a dispatcher learned her COVID-19 test had come back positive.
- PUB DATE: 10/26/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Herald Net

A Bremerton firefighter was flown to Harborview Medical Center with a leg injury Saturday after being pinned between two cars while performing a medical evaluation on a suspected impaired driver. The firefighter, 50, was called to Washington Avenue near its bend on 11th Street about 2 a.m. to evaluate a driver who'd struck a parked car, according to Bremerton Assistant Fire Chief John Payne.
- PUB DATE: 10/25/2020 6:21:04 PM - SOURCE: Kitsap Sun

Friday morning Spokane Valley Firefighters Labor Union announced via Facebook that they were able to deliver the first 'Operation Warm' winter coats ahead of the winter storm. Trent Elementary and Trentwood Elementary received 125 winter coats and SVFLU reminded parents to contact the school counselor if their kid is in need of a coat.
- PUB DATE: 10/25/2020 4:27:34 PM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6 Spokane

At Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue’s Olympic View Station, the Olympic Mountains can actually be viewed from inside the building through cracks in the walls. That’s just one of the problems with the station a $58.3 million facilities bond on the November ballot would solve. Both Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue and South Kitsap Fire and Rescue are going to voters this fall, asking them to approve bonds that would pay to upgrade or replace facilities they say are outdated and unsafe: stations that were built by volunteers in the 1960s and don’t have room to house modern fire engines, and stations that aren't up to seismic standards, meaning they could collapse in an earthquake, according to fire officials.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2020 1:47:37 PM - SOURCE: Kitsap Sun