An Airway Heights family lost their home in a fire Sunday night. The fire started at a mobile home in the Vietzke Mobile Home Park, on South Craig Road, shortly after 8 p.m. Some neighbors packed their things, fearing the fire would spread to their homes. Crews quickly responded and prevented the fire from damaging any other homes though.
- PUB DATE: 12/9/2018 10:23:02 PM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4

Menlo Park (CA) Fire Department Type 6 Wildland unit. Dodge 5500 4x4 4-door cab and chassis; Cummins 6.7L engine; Darley 2BE24K portable pump.

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