PHOTO: The Wilmington Fire Department is testing out new helmets, only four firefighters are giving the new equipment a try right now, but the deputy fire chief says it could be something they phase in over time. The helmets look much different than the traditional design with many bells and whistles that make them unique including LED lights.
- PUB DATE: 8/12/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WWAY-TV ABC/CBS/CW 3 Wilmington

Brownouts for local fire stations have been taken off the table as county officials plan to use one-time funds to bolster deficits in the Kern County Fire Department budget. Citing the need to save $6.5 million annually, Fire Chief David Witt prepared a plan that would have temporarily closed an average of three fire stations per day for the next year.
- PUB DATE: 8/12/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bakersfield.com

Hawaii is regularly seeing triple-digit increases in COVID-19 infections, a situation that underscores just how fast the virus is spreading in Hawaii. Scientists actually track that rate of spread ? or reproduction rate. And experts say that Hawaii now has the highest reproduction rate in the nation, at 1.
- PUB DATE: 8/12/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hawaii News Now

If you've noticed the skies have been a little bit hazy (when they're not covered in marine layer clouds), you can blame huge wildfires burning in Russia. The jet stream is carrying smoke from the blazes in Siberia up across the interior of Alaska and then blowing it southeast over the Gulf of Alaska and into Western Washington, according to the National Weather Service.
- PUB DATE: 8/12/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

The Enumclaw Fire Department was one of nine departments to send aid to a brush fire in Bonney Lake last week. According to Bonney Lake’s East Pierce Fire and Rescue, the fire — which was located just past the state Route 410/Veterans Memorial Drive intersection, on the downhill trek to Sumner — was reported around 2 p.
- PUB DATE: 8/11/2020 1:05:48 PM - SOURCE: Enumclaw Courier Herald