City Manager Brad Miyake announced the appointment of Jerome “Jay” Hagen as chief of the Bellevue Fire Department. Hagen, who has more than 33 years of fire service experience, joins the City of Bellevue from the Seattle Fire Department where he is currently a deputy chief in the Operations Division.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: City of Bellevue

Asotin County fire officials are taking a new approach to converting a church into a fire station after the first round of construction bids came in much higher than expected. The lowest bid came in $1.1 million higher than the fire district's budget for the project. At a special meeting Wednesday, fire district commissioners voted in favor of dividing the $3.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lewiston Tribune

Clay Center (KS) Fire Department 78-foot aerial ladder quint. Commander cab and chassis; Cummins L9 450-hp engine; Waterous CSU 2,000-gpm pump.

Clay Center (KS) Fire Department 78-foot aerial ladder quint. Commander cab and chassis; Cummins L9 450-hp engine; Waterous CSU 2,000-gpm pump.

Warmer weather and playing in the water go hand-in-hand, but so do water-related deaths. "We don't like going out to people drowning,” said Community Risk Prevention Officer Ben Shearer. “It's never a good day for us, its never a good day for families." Shearer said the Tri-Cities area has multiple water-related deaths each year, and he said most are preventable tragedies with a few things in common.
- PUB DATE: 5/2/2018 8:02:39 PM - SOURCE: KEPR-TV CBS 19