PHOTOS: Images of firefighters at work, along with a Bald Eagle, American flag and stars are featured in a mural designed and painted by Warren County artist Daniel Guevara which adorns the side of Hawtree Volunteer Fire Department in Wise.

In the center of the design is the image of a Hawtree fire truck with flames behind. The mural also salutes the fire department’s place in the Warren County community as Station No. 8.

For Guevara, the mural is meant to show everyone now and for years to come that firefighters, like members of Hawtree Volunteer Fire Department, are heroes. “The most important element of the design is the fire truck,” he said. “It is a great honor to show people that heroes are here.”

Guevara has completed several artistic projects in the Warren County community. The first large mural was one he completed at Mill Hill Brewery in Warrenton three years ago in tribute to Hillmon Poythress. In the middle of 2025, he completed a mural on the back of the Bragging Rooster Beer and Mead building.

After he completed the Bragging Rooster mural, he told the newspaper that the art he has created in Warren County represents a renaissance, or re-energizing of his lifelong talents and interest in art that began shortly before he immigrated from Colombia several years ago.

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A fire tore through a Kent home on Tuesday evening, completely destroying it. Puget Sound Fire and Eastside Fire & Rescue responded to the home on SE 208th Street, near Lake Youngs, to find it engulfed in flames. Due to a limited water supply, firefighters had to shuttle water to the scene. According to Puget Sound Fire, the nearest fire hydrant was two and a half miles away. It took crews nearly two hours to knock the fire out. No injuries were reported. It took firefighters an hour and 45 minutes to extinguish the fire. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

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Dozens of people and their pets were forced out into the cold after a fire broke out at an apartment building in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood. It started at the Wallingford Inn apartments in the 4400 block of Green Lake Way North shortly before 3 a.m. Wednesday. When firefighters arrived, residents were evacuated, and there was concern that the flames from a second-floor unit could quickly spread to others. Video from the scene showed a burned-out window, and at least one unit is a total loss. Other apartments were affected by smoke. One resident said her pets alerted her to the fire.

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VIDEO: Matt Frank, a lieutenant at the Tacoma Fire Department, has spent over half of his life in the fire service. It’s because of that work, he says, that he’s contracted cancer twice, a disease that’s becoming all too common for firefighters.

That’s why the Firefighter Cancer Support Network and International Association of Firefighters designated January as Firefighter Cancer Awareness Month, bringing eyes to the leading cause of line-of-duty death in the fire service. Frank’s cancer journey began in 2013 when he noticed a mole on his back. A year later, one of his lymph nodes was swollen. A doctor’s visit confirmed his suspicions: it was melanoma. After surgeries and three months of immunotherapy, his remission lasted four years, until a routine scan showed the unthinkable: the melanoma spread to his lungs. Today he’s been cancer-free for six years. But not everyone has been as fortunate.

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Fire-Dex appointed Maged Baskhron as VP of Operations to enhance strategic goals and uphold its mission of protecting first responders while promoting a people-first culture.

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