The cost of the city’s legal bills for the ongoing firefighters’ contract dispute increased $110,000 during a recent three-month period and now exceeds $634,000. City Comptroller James E. Mills on Friday confirmed that the law firm has billed $634,740.56 through January for costs associated with the nearly four-year labor dispute with the Watertown Professional Fire Fighters Association Local 191.
- PUB DATE: 5/7/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times

South King Fire and Rescue says a man was seriously injured after the roof of the Federal Way home he was demolishing collapsed. The News Tribune reports that firefighters were dispatched to the home on 18th Avenue South about 7:50 p.m. Sunday. Battalion Chief Ryan Herrera says they found the man, who is in his late 50s or early 60s, on the ground with "fairly significant" head trauma.
- PUB DATE: 5/7/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

A motor home burned at the Olympic Paradise RV Park near Sequim on Saturday, Clallam County Fire District No. 3 officials said. No one was injured in the blaze at 137 Pierson Road. The owner and his dog were visiting friends at the time of the fire, District 3 Assistant Chief Dan Orr said. “The first arriving crew stated the motor home was fully involved,” Orr said in a news release.
- PUB DATE: 5/6/2018 6:16:11 PM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

Saturday, two dogs died in a house fire that fire officials say the dogs started when they accidentally turned on the stove top. Q13 News spoke to the homeowner. He did not want us to say his name, but he let us into his home to show us the destruction. Destruction, the home owner is very familiar seeing himself; he’s been a firefighter for the last 17 years.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2018 11:59:04 PM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13

The new Sunnyside Fire Department chief is looking forward to serving the community, returning to Central Washington. Kenny B. Anderson, 48, grew up in the region. He lived in Ellensburg for a time and began his career in Pasco. He reports for duty as the new fire chief on June 1. Anderson is looking forward to being closer to family, especially his father.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2018 9:36:47 PM - SOURCE: Sunnyside Sun News