Clallam County Fire District 3 has announced that Stephanie (Gates) Anderson was promoted to career lieutenant at a ceremony Sept. 25 at Station 34. According to a press release, the selection process involves written exams, oral interviews and mock incidents. Anderson was sworn in by Chief Ben Andrews and had her new rank insignia pinned on by her husband, Travis Anderson, and her parents, Penny and Curt Gates.
- PUB DATE: 10/29/2019 1:02:33 PM - SOURCE: Sequim Gazette - Metered Site

With temperatures near freezing and wind chills in the mid-20s, a brush fire broke out Tuesday night, threatening several homes near Rock Island. The temperature was unusual for a brush fire — and so was the date. A start date of Oct. 28 makes the Webb Place Fire one of the latest in the past decade, according to state Department of Natural Resources data.
- PUB DATE: 10/29/2019 12:49:13 PM - SOURCE: Wenatchee World

The Yakima Fire Department was on the scene of a fire at a duplex early Tuesday morning. According to the department, the fire started in the 700 block of South 9th Avenue around 2:19 a.m. Yakima police officers were able to evacuate residents in the connected unit, and there were no injuries. The apartment was completely destroyed in the unit which it started in, while the other unit was not damaged.
- PUB DATE: 10/29/2019 10:47:44 AM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

In the last 24 hours, firefighters have responded to an estimated 330 fires across California, Governor Gavin Newsom stated in a press conference Monday afternoon. The update comes as the Kincade Fire, which sparked northeast of Geyserville on October 23, continues to burn across Northern California.
- PUB DATE: 10/29/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: SF Gate

Alex Graham was a fixture behind the wheel of Engine 21, part of a crew known as the Alley Rats that raced to calls around Northwest Washington’s Adams Morgan neighborhood. But it was in Graham’s less flashy work on the training grounds at the other end of the city where the 48-year-old became the department’s go-to fix-it man, making sure water flowed from engines and through hoses at the required rate and that ladders could be raised to burning structures.
- PUB DATE: 10/29/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Washington Post