Maple Valley Fire agreed to a 20-year contract to join services with Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority (RFA) on May 31. This contract was unanimously approved by both fire departments. “Maple Valley’s board of commissioners unanimously approved the contract on May 31. On June 6 our governance board for the Regional Fire Authority unanimously approved the contract,” Kyle Ohashi, Captain and Public Information Officer for the RFA explained.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2018 1:01:21 PM - SOURCE: Covington & Maple Valley Reporter

It might be a bumpy road for Camas leaders rolling into the city’s 2019-20 biennium budget process. On Monday evening, department heads gathered in front of Camas City Council members and Camas Mayor Scott Higgins at a special work session to discuss their most critical needs going into the short-term future.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2018 1:00:47 PM - SOURCE: Camas-Washougal Post-Record

The Chehalis City Council approved a pair of requests on Monday that stand to benefit the Chehalis Fire Department. Councilors voted without objection to allow Fire Chief Ken Cardinale to join the Riverside Fire Authority and Lewis County Fire District 6 in a joint application for an Assistance to Firefighter Grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2018 12:47:29 PM - SOURCE: Centralia Chronicle

Firefighters say a fire that burned over 2,000 acres in Grant County is now 100 percent contained Thursday morning. The Soap Lake Fire burned 2,063 acres and destroyed one small outbuilding, according to an update from Washington State Patrol Trooper Jeff Sevigney. No people were harmed and no homes were affected from this fire.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2018 11:46:01 AM - SOURCE: KIMA-TV CBS 29 Yakima