An attic fire damaged an Olympia home in the 200 block of San Mar Drive Northeast on Monday, according to the Olympia Fire Department. The fire is under investigation. Damage to the home is estimated at $125,000. No one was home at the time of the fire. Neighbors alerted fire crews about the presence of a family dog.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2018 11:29:19 AM - SOURCE: Olympian

The Sunnyside Fire Department has been awarded a $170,000 FEMA grant to purchase new self-contained breathing apparatus for its personnel. According to Fire Chief Kenny Anderson, the new equipment, 24 apparatus, will bring the department one step closer to meeting its safety needs. “It brings us up to enter-operability,” he said.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2018 4:33:00 AM - SOURCE: Sunnyside Sun News

 

Photos of past chiefs in the station conference room and power to PPE racks are a couple of Chris Mc Loone's favorite fire station design features from the F.I.E.R.O. Fire Station Design Symposium.

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An elderly man was found alive and apparently with a "sense of humor" inside of a D.C. senior apartment building five days after a fire broke out causing more than 100 residents to be displaced. The man has been identified as 74-year-old Raymond Holton, according to sources. Crews hired to evaluate the safety of the structure located Holton Monday morning sitting inside of his apartment in the building that caught on fire last Wednesday.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WUSA-TV 9 DC

One Bellingham Fire Department veteran officer retired and another resigned after an investigation revealed a deceased patient in July was taken to Fire Station 1 to await pick up from a funeral home and several department members, including a division chief and EMS captains, practiced multiple intubations on the body, according to information provided by City of Bellingham Communications Director Vanessa Blackburn.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald