Emergency responders were dispatched to a Sifton area daycare Thursday morning due to a smell of gas. Firefighters responded to 7715 N.E. 119th Place about 7:55 a.m. for a hazmat investigation. The business listed at the address is Orchards KinderCare. Arriving fire crews reported that they did not smell gas.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2018 8:30:35 AM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian

Some of the best parts of Devan Howe-Kizzar’s life are flammable. The books, blankets, teddy bears and clothes. Baby photos and birth certificates. Dressers and bed frames. Purses and wallets. Money, car keys, her daughter’s birthday present – all reduced to a sprawling wave of blackened ash, with the occasional jagged edge from a piece of furniture.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2018 2:00:47 AM - SOURCE: Spokane Spokesman-Review

To pay for college, Stringer worked on a fishing boat in Alaska. It’s this formative experience, Stringer says, that directly led to the adventure she’s spent the last 11 years pursuing in Tacoma, what she calls her “dream job.” She is the second-most senior fire boat pilot for the Tacoma Fire Department, meaning she’s one of just five firefighters capable of captaining Tacoma Fire’s two primary response boats — the Destiny and the Defiance.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2018 1:41:34 AM - SOURCE: Tacoma News Tribune

Louis R. Harper Jr., the Baltimore City Fire Department’s first African-American captain, whose landmark 1971 lawsuit forced the city to end discriminatory practices in the hiring and promotion of firefighters and police, died Dec. 8 of symptoms related to dementia in hospice at FutureCare Cherrywood in Reisterstown.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun

By the end of the year the city fire department will be down 16 men due to retirements, but the drop in the ranks isn’t yet cause for Mayor Tony George to sound the alarm. Instead, George has taken a wait-and-see approach for the outcome of next year’s binding arbitration on a new contract before making a decision on filling the spots.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wilkes Barre Times Leader