Clallam County Fire District No. 2 has seven new volunteer firefighter/EMTs after the new recruits were sworn in during a badge-pinning ceremony earlier this month. Board Secretary Heather Catuzo administered their oath of office while fire district commissioners, friends and family looked on at a fire commissioners meeting May 15.
- PUB DATE: 5/28/2018 6:38:02 PM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

Yakima has a new fire chief and he's from the Yakima Fire Department. The city has officially named Aaron Markham the new chief. Markham will start his new job on June 1. He'll soon move from his office where he served as a deputy fire chief for the Yakima Fire Department. In a news release from the city Yakima City Manager Cliff Moore says “Aaron has many years of experience in the fire service in a variety of roles.
- PUB DATE: 5/27/2018 7:40:20 PM - SOURCE: KIT 1280-AM & 99.3-FM

Spokane Fire Department paramedics now have a new life-saving tool at their fingertips. The department just debuted new clinical checklists in hopes of saving time and cutting down on mistakes on medical calls. Fire chief Brian Schaeffer said it's taken the department a year of research and training to get the checklists in its paramedics' hands.
- PUB DATE: 5/27/2018 6:22:13 PM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4

After a 2016 investigation revealed gender bias and cultural problems within the Vancouver Fire Department, Chief Joe Molina had this to say: “We have to get better.” Now, 17 months later, the chief points to improvements made in the wake of the report: • Stations were changed in ways the chief says better accommodates men and women working together.
- PUB DATE: 5/27/2018 6:24:06 AM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian - Metered Site