Lake Wenatchee Fire and Rescue crews, Chelan County Sheriff, Cascade Ambulance and LifeFlight were toned out to rescue an injured snowmobiler on Pole Ridge above Fish Lake on Sunday. “Our fire district happens to have a snowmobiler trailer and Toboggan so we sent a team up to the site where the injured rider was,” said Chief Mick Lamar.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 11:36:43 AM - SOURCE: KPQ-AM 560

The retired fire chief of Central Mason Fire-EMS will begin work as interim chief of Quilcene Fire Rescue today. Tim McKern, 60, will serve as interim chief until April 1 while fire district commissioners pursue a long-term plan for a permanent chief. The commissioners decided unanimously to offer him the position at a special meeting Thursday night.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 2:11:23 AM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

The city intends to hire a professional fire service consultant to conduct an examination and analysis of the administration, operations, training and deployment practices of the Fire Department. The study will include a master plan for the Fire Department that will assess its internal operations and staffing, and provide a gap analysis of its current situation against national standards and best practices, according to City Manager Edward M.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Telegram & Gazette

VIDEO: It’s not just for video games anymore. The Myrtle Beach Fire Department is now using virtual reality as a way to better educate the community on what it’s like to be a firefighter. Firefighters plan to debut the technology to students at Pathways to Possibilities next week at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMBF-TV NBC 32 Myrtle Beach

After a photo believed to have been taken last year of a D.C. Fire recruit class showed three white men making what looked like an “OK symbol” with their hands, an internal investigation found they were not aware the hand gesture is associated with white supremacy. Weeks before an internal investigation cleared three members of recruit class 387, D.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTOP-AM 1500 Washington