There was good news and bad news in South Snohomish Fire and Rescue’s 2017 annual report to the Edmonds City Council Tuesday night. It started with an overview by Fire Chief Bruce Stedman profiling South Snohomish Fire’s work in the community, from providing community paramedic services to disaster preparedness training.
- PUB DATE: 3/28/2018 3:30:06 AM - SOURCE: My Edmonds News

City firefighter Frank Walsh is recovering at home after receiving first- and second-degree burns while battling a fire that flashed over in a vacant building early Monday morning. “All things considered, I’m feeling very lucky,” Walsh told the Press of Atlantic City after he was released Tuesday afternoon from the Jefferson Hospital Burn Unit in Philadelphia.
- PUB DATE: 3/28/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Press of Atlantic City

VIDEO - An eight-year-old boy narrowly escaped an Indiana apartment fire Sunday by jumping from a fourth-story window. He was caught by neighbors holding blankets. Two other children, 2-year-old Kailani Gober and 4-year-old Khristopher Gober, died of smoke inhalation and burns, according to the Lake County coroner.
- PUB DATE: 3/28/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGN-TV 9 WB Chicago

Baltimore’s 911 dispatch system was hacked by an unknown actor or actors over the weekend, prompting a temporary shutdown of automated dispatching and an investigation into the breach, Mayor Catherine Pugh’s office confirmed Tuesday. James Bentley, a spokesman for Pugh, confirmed that the Sunday morning hack affected messaging functions within the computer-aided dispatch, or CAD, system, but said the mayor would not otherwise comment on the matter Tuesday.
- PUB DATE: 3/28/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun

As flames devoured the North Philadelphia rowhouse beneath her last week, Alita Johnson cowered in a small third-floor bathroom with her father and 3-year-old son, pleading with 911 to send someone to their rescue. Firefighters responded. They extinguished the blaze and rescued other tenants. But when they cleared the scene and packed up to leave, Johnson and her family remained behind – missed and overlooked.
- PUB DATE: 3/28/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: PHILLY.COM