The London Fire Department will receive a new fire truck and updated fire equipment, reports The Sentinel Echo.

The city council approved the $129,962 purchase at a recent meeting. This truck will replace a 33-year-old truck.

The new truck will have improved safety features, such as not having an open-cab and having the ability to carry 55 gallons.

Firefighters will also receive lighter gear and new oxygen tanks, or SCBAs. The current SCBAs are 15 years old.

 

 

An Adams County firefighter who fell from a fire truck nearly two weeks ago has died, reports PennLive.com.

 

Assistant Chief Walter Wagaman was amongst five heading to the accident scene when he was ejected.

Approximately three to five acres of a grass field has burned in a wildfire burning south of Lynden on Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 14, and a firefighter was reportedly transported from the area with dehydration. The fire has been named the Wiser Lake Fire, Washington State Department of Natural Resources spokesperson Janet Pearce told The Bellingham Herald.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2019 2:37:06 PM - SOURCE: The Bellingham Herald

Seattle Fire responded but fortunately found no flames after a reported explosion blew open doors inside an E Olive Way apartment building Wednesday. According to SFD radio updates on the just before noon incident, units were dispatched after a resident reported an explosion inside the E Olive Way at Bellevue building.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2019 11:38:17 AM - SOURCE: CHS Capitol Hill Seattle News

Marysville Police are asking for the public's help to solve an arson at Cedarcrest Middle School. Detectives say fires were intentionally set in a building behind the classrooms and in a dumpster at about 5:30 am on Thursday, August 1st, and caused more than $70,000 in damage. "We're hoping that there has been communication, some type of communication between those responsible through either social media or through texting or some other type of communication where they're actually providing information that they were there, or that they witnessed it, or they were part of the act and give us a little bit of lead into which way to go from here," said Marysville PD Det.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2019 6:54:55 AM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13