Camas City Council members on Monday voted 5-2 to adopt a somewhat contentious set of salary scales for the city’s “non-represented” employees — those who are not part of a union or represented by a collective bargaining agreement. Concerned that non-represented employees, including the city’s police chief, public works director, fire chief, finance director and library director, had already worked long enough without an updated salary schedule or cost-of-living increase, city leaders made the seven-tier salary scales retroactive to Aug.
- PUB DATE: 10/5/2017 1:06:44 PM - SOURCE: Camas-Washougal Post-Record

Firefighters discovered the body of a person inside a burning home in Tacoma Thursday morning. Witnesses called 911 around 9:30 a.m. to report smoke in the air near the 7400 block of South D Street, according to Joe Meinecke with Tacoma Fire. Firefighters arrived to find flames and smoke pouring from a 1 1/2 story home.
- PUB DATE: 10/5/2017 11:29:07 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

Newly released photos and documents show how close a UPS driver came to losing his life when he was attacked by a pack of pit bulls at a Puyallup-area home last month where a woman refused to let rescuers through the gate. The UPS driver, Kevin Backlund, received 133 stitches after the brutal attack and suffered from severe blood loss, according to the documents.
- PUB DATE: 10/5/2017 11:06:38 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

The Washington Fire Chiefs ( WFC), a non-profit fire chiefs association is evaluating and possibly developing a workers’ compensation group retro plan through Washington State Labor and Industries (L & I). This bid request has been initiated to solicit responses from individuals or firms interested in participating in a contract to perform the services described in the attached documents.