The city’s second-highest paid employee in 2017 will soon be without union protection if the City Council approves a new contract Thursday with the Uniform Fire Chiefs Association. The tentative agreement signed by Mayor Patrick Madden and Deputy Fire Chief Dave Paul, president of the UFCA, would remove Fire Chief Thomas Garrett from the union.
- PUB DATE: 12/4/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Albany Times-Union

Classes and all school-related activities are canceled at Surprise Lake Middle School in Milton on Tuesday after a fire in the boiler-room area damaged one of the school’s buildings. The actual fire damage is pretty minimal, district administrators told KOMO News on Monday night. The bigger issue is the damage from all of the smoke and water, they said.
- PUB DATE: 12/4/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

If you think major wildfires in Washington are just for the eastern half of the state, think again. In a meeting room at the Tulalip Resort Casino, wildland firefighters, climate scientists, emergency managers, and others gathered Monday for a conference called “Managing Western Washington Wildfire Risk in a Changing Climate.
- PUB DATE: 12/4/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KING 5 News

Lafayette (IN) Fire Department heavy-duty walk-around rescue. Enforcer cab and chassis; Cummins L9 450-hp engine; 18.5-foot walk-around rescue body.

Millions of dollars and a new fire station are up in the air for the city of Kennewick. This week city council will vote on their biennial budget. If it passes, it will bring many changes to the Kennewick Fire Department. Kennewick is a city impacted by fire--it was just few months back the Bofer Canyon fire torched homes and threatened lives in the south Kennewick.
- PUB DATE: 12/3/2018 6:19:01 PM - SOURCE: KEPR-TV CBS 19