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Posted: Mar 4, 2018

Man suffered medical emergency before crashing his car in Thurston County

A man suffered a medical emergency before he crashed his car on Johnson Point Road Saturday morning, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office and a fire official South Bay Fire District No. 8 later helped remove the man from his car and he was taken to an area hospital, Battalion Chief Les Robinette said.
- PUB DATE: 3/4/2018 7:53:26 PM - SOURCE: Olympian
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Posted: Mar 4, 2018

Officials investigating 3 fires in Yakima, blame arsonist

Authorities are investigating three fires that started on Sunday morning along North 6thAvenue in Yakima. Around 6 a.m. fire crews arrived to the Mariscos El Nayarit restaurant where a fire had started in the back of the alley and spread to the attic of the restaurant. A few blocks from the restaurant, an abandoned house on the corner of North 6th Avenue and West I Street had also caught fire.
- PUB DATE: 3/4/2018 5:16:40 PM - SOURCE: YakTriNews
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Posted: Mar 3, 2018

Arlington, Marysville to send recruits to new regional county fire training academy

Arlington Fire and the Marysville Fire District have banded with several other local districts to establish a closer-to-home fire training academy. South Snohomish County Fire and Rescue District 1, a regional fire authority that serves more than 250,000 residents in Lynnwood, Edmonds, Mountlake Terrace, Brier and unincorporated south county, is hosting the academy.
- PUB DATE: 3/3/2018 1:50:18 AM - SOURCE: Arlington Times
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Posted: Mar 3, 2018

Vancouver paramedic relives long career on road

Vancouver’s Rick Futrell leafed through his reams of newspaper clippings, photos, commendations and other documents built up over more than 40 years working on ambulances. “I think what really keeps me in the business is loading up people with stinky feet,” he joked, pointing to an old newspaper clipping where Futrell, his back visibly bent, is rolling someone with wrapped feet into the back of an ambulance.
- PUB DATE: 3/2/2018 9:14:15 PM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian
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Posted: Mar 2, 2018

Perry Fire replacement trucks arrive

The new ladder truck cost $450,000 and has 12,000 miles on it and the new rescue truck cost $100,000 with 16,000 miles on it. Parker said the funds to pay for the trucks are coming from a Georgia Municipal Association loan that the city will pay back over a 10-year period.

"We were very conscious and wanted to spend the taxpayer’s money wisely,” Parker said. "A brand new 2018 ladder truck would have cost over one million dollars and a new 2018 rescue truck would be a little over $160,000. We felt like we were getting a great deal on the trucks with both of them having very low mileage.”

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