Marysville and Fire District 12 officials hope to improve local fire and emergency services by forming a Regional Fire Authority. After years of negotiating city and fire district representatives are ready to submit a final proposal to the Marysville City Council and Fire District 12 commissioners. “Tonight we reached the last milestone in the plan and we have to take it back to the respective bodies for a vote,” said Martin McFalls, Fire Chief of the Marysville Fire District.
- PUB DATE: 10/2/2018 1:09:23 PM - SOURCE: North Couty Outlook

Redmond police are searching for an arsonist who’s set more than half-a-dozen fires within the past week. Most of the fires were set inside parked vehicles, police said. All but one of the fires was out by the time the arsons were discovered. "I opened the window and smoke comes billowing out. Then you just kinda go into shock and start to process what you’re looking at," said victim Bryan Zembruski.
- PUB DATE: 10/2/2018 12:37:54 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

The recent spate of cooler temperatures and elevated humidity levels in Eastern Washington has led the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW) to lift fire restrictions on many of the lands they manage there. According to the manager of WDFW’s Lands Division Cynthia Wikerson, the action is consistent with, and follows a similar lifting of restrictions by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), which is responsible for fire protection on many wildlife areas in the state.
- PUB DATE: 10/2/2018 9:40:04 AM - SOURCE: iFiberOne