Fire camps are a hotbed of social un-distancing. “Going to a fire camp is like a huge summer music festival,” Vandehey says. This year, fire camp could be as dangerous as the wildfires, and top Western managers are deep in planning how to make fire camps Covid-19 ready for fire crews. Hilary Franz is Washington’s commissioner of public lands.
- PUB DATE: 4/20/2020 6:44:00 PM - SOURCE: KUOW 94.9FM - Puget Sound Public Radio

A 30-year-old Edmonds man was arrested Sunday night after witnesses spotted him lighting an object on fire underneath a Lynnwood Police Department vehicle, police said. Just after 10 p.m. Sunday, witnesses reported seeing a man bent down near a police vehicle in the Lynnwood Police Department parking lot, located at 19321 44th Ave.
- PUB DATE: 4/20/2020 3:11:10 PM - SOURCE: Lynnwood Today

After a lengthy delay, fire officials finally broke ground on the future home of Grant County Fire District 8 last Friday. Initially, construction on the new station was supposed to begin in 2018. The county finalized its purchase the 10-acre parcel at the corner of Highway 243 and Road 22.5 on Feb.
- PUB DATE: 4/20/2020 8:43:56 AM - SOURCE: iFiberOne

A homeless person reportedly confessed that they were the cause of Saturday night’s fire in downtown Ephrata. Ephrata Assistant Fire Chief Anthony Graff says he and his staff were called out to the fire at around 9 p.m. Graff says Grant PUD-owned spools that used to contain power cables caught fire next to a Moore Furniture warehouse off 2nd Street near Bellissimo Salon.
- PUB DATE: 4/20/2020 7:49:26 AM - SOURCE: iFiberOne

Fire chiefs through the western United States are being asked to propose budget cuts between 10% and 25% for their departments—often including EMS service—as local governments try to fund operations in the face of dramatic tax-revenue declines caused by stay-at-home measures designed to slow the spread of COVID-19.
- PUB DATE: 4/20/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: IWCE’s Urgent Communications