A fire consumed multiple derelict vehicles and spread to cover about 1 and a half acres of wild land in the Moclips area Tuesday afternoon. Stephanie Alstad with Grays Harbor Fire District #8 said they received the call for a fire at the 206 Mill on Otis Court in Moclips just after 1 PM Tuesday. The initial report was of several vehicles on fire, flames and smoke seen and threatening structures.
- PUB DATE: 6/20/2019 6:34:06 AM - SOURCE: KBKW 1450-AM & 94.7-FM

Seattle authorities have moved firefighters out of a Northgate fire station where worries have long been raised about unhealthy conditions and links to cancer. Mayor Jenny Durkan and Fire Chief Harold Scoggins made the relocation decision this week, citing initial results from environmental testing recently done at Station 31 by the Seattle firefighters union, Local 27.
- PUB DATE: 6/20/2019 6:28:44 AM - SOURCE: The Seattle Times - Metered Site

Kent and Covington voters will decide on the Aug. 6 primary ballot whether to approve a Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority levy to increase property taxes and reduce fire benefit charges to maintain and adequately fund operations. Fifty-seven percent of voters rejected a similar measure in April 2018.
- PUB DATE: 6/20/2019 1:43:59 AM - SOURCE: Kent Reporter

Seattle authorities have moved firefighters out of a Northgate fire station where worries have long been raised about unhealthy conditions and links to cancer. Mayor Jenny Durkan and Fire Chief Harold Scoggins made the relocation decision this week, citing initial results from environmental testing recently done at Station 31 by the Seattle firefighters union, Local 27.
- PUB DATE: 6/20/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Seattle Times - Metered Site

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) released its annual “U.S. Firefighter Fatalities in the United States” report, which showed a total of 64 U.S. firefighter fatalities while on duty in 2018. This is the eighth time in the last 10 years that fewer than 70 on-duty deaths have occurred; the death toll is half what it was in the first five years that NFPA conducted this study.
- PUB DATE: 6/20/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NFPA.org