Camas city councilors approved the city’s biennial 2019-2020 budget at their Dec. 17 meeting but will have to wait until January to make a decision on funding additional positions in the Camas-Washougal Fire Department. During the budget process, Camas councilors have discussed the possibility of adding four firefighters and a deputy marshal or fire inspector to the department.
- PUB DATE: 12/25/2018 2:42:15 PM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian

P.J. Farrell had a lot to look forward to on Christmas morning. Getting home, waking up his kids, seeing the excitement wash away the tired in their eyes, and watching as they opened the tightly wrapped presents underneath the family tree. But instead, at about 5 a.m., as he was finishing up his shift as a part-time newspaper courier for The Spokesman-Review, he got a phone call from his wife, Melinda: The house is on fire, come home now.
- PUB DATE: 12/25/2018 2:10:25 PM - SOURCE: Spokane Spokesman-Review

Arson is to blame for two early morning fires set with two blocks of each other in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, and at least one business owner has video proof. The largest fire was reported at 3:46 a.m. Monday in the alley behind the Red Star Taco Bar and the Habitude Salon and Spa in the 500 block of North 36th Street.
- PUB DATE: 12/24/2018 5:50:13 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

Firefighters battled a blaze early Christmas Eve morning at an apartment building in West Valley. Fire officials were called at 12:21 a.m. to reports of a structure fire at a four-unit apartment building at 407 S. 81st Ave., according to a Yakima Fire Department news release. A resident in one of the apartments was cooking with a pan of oil on the stove when the fire started and escaped with minor burns to her hands, the release said.
- PUB DATE: 12/24/2018 12:46:44 PM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic

Due to the lapse of funding causing a Federal Government shutdown, the campus of the National Emergency Training Center (NETC) in Emmitsburg, Maryland, the home of the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial, is closed to the public. Until the shutdown is resolved we ask for everyone’s patience and understanding.  

Until the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) can resume normal operations at our Emmitsburg office, the following measures are in effect: 

• Any mail being sent to the Foundation’s Emmitsburg address should be sent to:   PO Drawer 498 Emmitsburg, MD 21727 

• Any package deliveries that do not ship to a PO Box should be shipped to the Foundation’s Crofton office address at:   National Fallen Firefighters Foundation 2130 Priest Bridge Drive, Suite 6 Crofton, MD 21114 

• Visitors will not be allowed on campus, including visits to the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial. 

 

We appreciate everyone’s support and understanding and we wish everyone a Happy Holiday!