Larry Verducci looked at the smoldering hillside and realized just how “very lucky” they were. “It could have been a whole different scenario,” he said Friday. Verducci’s home and about two dozen others were threatened by a large brush fire Sept. 14. They were all ordered to evacuate. But then the “heroes arrived,” he said of helicopters from the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office and Department of Natural Resources.
- PUB DATE: 9/16/2017 1:52:07 AM - SOURCE: Arlington Times

Saying goodbye to valued employees is hard, even when I am excited about their next professional challenge. Saying goodbye to Fire Chief Bruce Stedman will be very hard. Let me tell you why: In his seven years at the city of Arlington, Bruce has accomplished much. Right after he arrived, he organized his staff to do public outreach on a levy issue.
- PUB DATE: 9/16/2017 1:52:00 AM - SOURCE: Arlington Times

Police have arrested two young boys in connection with a suspicious house fire in Freeland last month. The boys, both 15, allegedly confessed to being involved in the suspected arson case, the Island County Sheriff’s Office announced. “The suspects are a (sic) two 15 year old males, one of which lives in the area,” the sheriff’s office said in a news release.
- PUB DATE: 9/16/2017 1:50:40 AM - SOURCE: Whidbey News-Times

Dozens of residents are displaced after a massive, four-alarm fire at an apartment complex in SeaTac Friday afternoon. Crews were called to the Carriage House Apartments located at 3600 S. 180th Street around 4:00 p.m. after a neighbor reported seeing smoke coming from one of the buildings. Firefighters arrived to find flames and thick plumes of smoke shooting out from the rooftops on two sides of the two-story complex.
- PUB DATE: 9/15/2017 7:55:28 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000