The La Conner fire station is officially fully owned by the town after the town bought out the half owned by Skagit County Fire District 13. The town paid the district $563,750. Town Administrator John Doyle said the town needed additional space for the La Conner Fire Department’s increasing number of volunteer firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2017 4:28:54 AM - SOURCE: Skagit Valley Herald (GoSkagit.com)

Mayer Fire Captain Jeffrey A. Vollmer died early Tuesday at his home from an apparent heart attack. He was 40. Captain Vollmer passed suddenly after returning home from a training exercise. Captain Vollmer was a second-generation firefighter and a 12-year veteran of the Mayer Fire Department. He was a graduate of Ortonville High School and the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KARE11.com

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill this week that allows the Yonkers Fire Department to tap into a controversial fund used for a variety of department expenses. The fire union and Democrats in the state Legislature pushed for the law after the union stopped spending the cash when Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli found the spending flouted state law.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin

The U.S. Senate Thursday night passed the United States Fire Administration, AFG, and SAFER Program Reauthorization Act (H.R. 4661). The House of Representatives passed the same bill Monday. As a result, the measure is on its way to the president’s desk, saving the FIRE and SAFER Grant programs from expiring on January 2 and pushing their sunset dates out to September 30, 2024.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: International Association of Fire Chiefs

It is with a shared vision, to save lives from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) by stimulating effective community, professional and citizen action, that the PulsePoint Foundation and the Citizen CPR Foundation announce Sonoma County EMS/Save Lives Sonoma as the inaugural winner of the 2017 PulsePoint Grant Competition.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Citizen CPR Foundtion