Enough with the Band-Aids, despite how long they stick. Officials with the Bainbridge Island Fire Department want to make the agency’s property tax levy for emergency medical services permanent. Fire commissioners recently agreed, by an unanimous vote, to put before voters a permanent EMS levy. It will appear on the Feb.
- PUB DATE: 12/9/2018 1:00:46 PM - SOURCE: Bainbridge Island Review

Off-duty South County Fire & Rescue firefighter Antonio “Tony” Robinson, who works out of Edmonds’ Station 17, was recognized Saturday for his efforts last summer to help save the life of a former Olympic rower who suffered sudden cardiac arrest on Lake Whatcom. Charles Hamlin, 71, a rower in the 1968 Olympics, was on Lake Whatcom in June when he appeared to have a seizure.
- PUB DATE: 12/8/2018 9:59:06 PM - SOURCE: My Edmonds News

The Chehalis Fire Department is still operating out of Lewis County Fire District 6 headquarters and there are no immediate plans for it to move back to downtown Chehalis more than four months after evacuating the 455 NW Park St. building due to asbestos contamination. Renovation work has continued there since cleanup efforts related to the asbestos wrapped up in September.
- PUB DATE: 12/7/2018 7:01:50 PM - SOURCE: Centralia Chronicle

An early morning fire destroyed a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Lacey and it's being investigated as a possible arson. The fire broke out around 3:45 a.m. Friday at the hall on 6th Ave SE near Carpenter Road SE. LACEY, Wash. -- An early morning fire destroyed a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Lacey and it's being investigated as a possible arson.
- PUB DATE: 12/7/2018 5:56:10 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

When Charlotte firefighter Seth Tinsley died at 34 of brain cancer in 2016, his name went on the International Association of Fire Fighter’s memorial in Colorado Springs, Colo., for those lost in the line of duty. Tinsley’s own state, however, made no connection between his 11 years of fire service and his early death.
- PUB DATE: 12/7/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Charlotte Observer