Spokane Fire Department Chief Brian Schaeffer will join 20 other chiefs from around the country in a year-long development program for fire department leaders. Schaeffer was accepted into the International Association of Fire Chiefs’ sixth Fire Service Executive Development Institute, which begins in December.
- PUB DATE: 11/28/2017 3:55:30 AM - SOURCE: Spokane Spokesman-Review

An abandoned garage structure on a property that includes a house that previously caught fire also burned down Monday morning, Riverside Fire Authority Chief Mike Kytta told The Chronicle. Fire crews were still at the scene at about 10:30 Monday morning in the 1400 block of Alexander Street — at the end of the dead end road — keeping an eye on the burning structure to prevent it from spreading to nearby houses.
- PUB DATE: 11/28/2017 3:16:14 AM - SOURCE: Centralia Chronicle

An Aberdeen woman accused of stealing more than $350,000 from the credit union she managed, then setting fire to the building pleaded guilty Monday to five counts of first-degree theft. The Aberdeen Police Department reports that detectives began investigating Krista Putman, 38, following a March 29, 2016 fire at the Grays Harbor Woodworkers Credit Union, located at 2600 Sumner Avenue.
- PUB DATE: 11/28/2017 3:12:45 AM - SOURCE: Centralia Chronicle

The city of Salisbury has filed a lawsuit against a group of volunteer firefighters who broke away from the Salisbury Fire Department. The suit is seeking a halt to the spending of taxpayer and charitable funds and the return of property and improperly spent money. The case filed in Wicomico County Circuit Court names Company 1 and 11 of its officers individually.
- PUB DATE: 11/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Delmarva Now

Professional Firefighters of Kokomo Local 396 and the city of Kokomo likely are moving headlong into a court saga, after city officials denied a grievance filed by the union relating to collective bargaining efforts. The Kokomo Board of Public Works last week denied the union’s grievance, saying in a findings-of-fact document no articles or sections in the previous agreement between the two sides were violated.
- PUB DATE: 11/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kokomo Tribune