South Snohomish County Fire & Rescue and International Association of Fire Fighters Local 1828 will honor Battalion Chief Greg Westerman and firefighter Kurt McEnroe at a retirement ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 2, 9 a.m., at Martha Lake Fire Station 21, 16819 13th Ave. W., Lynnwood. The ceremony is open to the public.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2017 3:55:47 AM - SOURCE: Lynnwood Today

The end may be near for Spokane for Honest Government, the political action committee representing the firefighters union and other labor groups. If it dies, whatever rises from the ashes should try, belatedly, to live up to that grandiose name. And the politicians who depend on unions and union PACs – which is to say, every single member of the City Council’s liberal supermajority – should do whatever they can to see that it does.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2017 2:43:57 AM - SOURCE: Spokane Spokesman-Review

Frank Fowlston was known to work as many as 100 hours a week. That may be why his son, Frank Fowlston Jr., remembers his father as one of the "hardest working men" in his life. Fowlston, 60, died Monday morning in a fire at his home on 108 County Route 21 in Plymouth, according to Fowlston Jr. Fowlston was the Chief of the Plymouth Volunteer Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin

The state's highest court won't let homeowners burned out by the Yarnell Hill fire sue the state for negligence. And that, according to an attorney for those affected, has bad implications for others who own property throughout the state. Without comment, the Arizona Supreme Court has spurned a request by the lawyers for those who lost buildings in the 2013 blaze that they should be able to make their case to a jury that the state, which was trying to contain the wildfire that started on public lands, also had a duty to protect their property.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Arizona Daily Sun

Thirty-four states in the U.S. have passed legislation recognizing that firefighters face an elevated risk for some types of cancers and offering varying levels of death benefits to surviving family, with a few even providing for disability payments to affected members who become too ill to continue working.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fort Smith Southwest Times Record