Flames burned through a homeless camp in a heavily wooded area of Kent Wednesday morning -- just one of several disturbances Kent neighbors are dealing with. Neighbors say they have been complaining about campers in those woods for years. Several people said they see people walking along the tracks heading in and out of the woods.
- PUB DATE: 7/10/2019 12:56:17 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

Rosenbauer offers corrosion resistance using a hot dip galvanizing process. Each aerial section is individually cleaned then submerged in molten zinc, protecting the aerial from the inside out.

Clallam County Fire District 3’s leaders will ask voters to renew a 10-year Emergency Medical Services property tax levy in the Nov. 5 General Election. Fire commissioners voted unanimously July 2 to seek to continue the EMS levy rate not to exceed $0.50 per thousand dollars of assessed valuation through 2030.
- PUB DATE: 7/10/2019 1:42:56 AM - SOURCE: Sequim Gazette

VIDEO: Firefighters who battled the October 2017 Tubbs Fire in Napa, Sonoma and Lake counties have tested at “troubling” levels for toxic exposure, according to a new study. 148 firefighters volunteered to be part of the study conducted by the San Francisco Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation.
- PUB DATE: 7/10/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPIX-TV CBS 5 San Francisco

New Jersey passed a firefighter cancer bill Monday, joining 47 states who already passed the bill, and leaving South Carolina as one of only two states without this protection for firefighters. Roger Odachowski, president of the South Carolina Professional Firefighter Association, says that firefighters are not just saving lives, they are putting their own health at risk.
- PUB DATE: 7/10/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCIV-TV ABC 4 Charleston