San Francisco voters will decide in November whether to lower the retirement age from 58 to 55 for the city's firefighters, who risk cancer and death as part of their job. If more than half of voters on the Nov. 5 ballot approve the amendment to the city charter, members of the San Francisco Fire Department hired after Jan.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPIX-TV CBS 5 San Francisco

VIDEO/PHOTOS: Firefighters tackled a massive fire in Renton in an area that neighbors and fire crews confirm has been the site of a longtime homeless encampment that regularly has fires. Renton Regional Fire Authority reported investigators are looking into what sparked it, leading to estimated 40-foot flames just after 7 a.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

PHOTOS: At 11:42 Wednesday morning, July 31, a brush fire was reported one mile south of the Beebe Bridge. Firefighters arrived on scene in seven minutes from being dispatched finding a two-acre fire quickly spreading up steep hillsides burning in dry grass and sage. The fire response quickly became a second then third alarm fire bringing in fire district resources from Chelan Douglas and Okanogan Counties.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lake Chelan Now - Metered Site

About 500 acres burned west of Paterson after a fire reportedly started by a fish landing on a substation. Fire crews responded to the area of SR 14 around milepost 157 around 10 a.m. According to Scott Hawley, with Benton County Fire District #6, the fire is believed to have been started by sparks when a fish was dropped on the substation by a bird.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NonStop Local

VIDEO: Seventeen firefighters suffered heat-related injuries and were treated at the scene of a fire Tuesday afternoon at a business plaza in Monroe Township. One firefighter was hospitalized and is described as being in "stable condition," according to a press release from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.
- PUB DATE: 7/31/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTOL-TV CBS 11 Toledo