VIDEO: Remember the good ‘ol days when kids collected and traded baseball cards? A few folks at the Amarillo Fire Department remember those days too. But they’re version of trading cards features their fire engines and trucks. These cards are helping highlight our local heroes and connecting them with our local kids.
- PUB DATE: 1/29/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KAMR-TV NBC 4 Amarillo

There were some fireworks when a makeshift homeless shelter caught fire on West Marina Drive early Tuesday. Moses Lake firefighters say the outdoor shelter near an abandoned lumber yard caught fire just before 3:21 a.m. The city’s fire marshal says a wood-burning device caught the shelter on fire and spread to nearby propane tanks.
- PUB DATE: 1/28/2020 4:41:24 PM - SOURCE: iFiberOne

The Marysville Fire District was rated slightly higher this year for its fire protection by the Washington Surveying and Rating Bureau. This could mean lower insurance payments for those who own property in Fire District 12. The bureau rates fire districts with a “Protection Class” from 1 to 10, with 1 being the best rating.
- PUB DATE: 1/28/2020 1:03:23 PM - SOURCE: North Couty Outlook

VIDEO: Four people were taken to the hospital Tuesday morning after a fire broke out at a Tacoma apartment complex. Tacoma Fire Department public information officer Joe Meineke said the call came in just before 7 a.m., when firefighters were dispatched to the 5600 block of East Swan Creek Drive. Crews found heavy fire and smoke from the second floor when they arrived, and the fire quickly spread to a second apartment.
- PUB DATE: 1/28/2020 9:28:40 AM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13

The addition of two fire-prevention officers to the Bellevue Fire Department has made a positive difference in the city, according to documents shared at the Jan. 13 extended city council study session. In part because of the hires, who were implemented last year after a 2018 authorization from the council, Bellevue fire completed all of its assigned fire-prevention maintenance inspections (1,452 buildings/4,966 tenants), according to meeting documents.
- PUB DATE: 1/28/2020 2:49:57 AM - SOURCE: Bellevue Reporter