Walla Walla’s first responders will soon see a baby boomer bust. The pending departures are due to an aging population of police officers and firefighters who are nearing retirement. Each department has 47 employees and early retirement age for 20 years of service is 53, according to officials in both departments.
- PUB DATE: 11/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Union-Bulletin

A woman was lucky to be alive Friday morning after a car drove into her Federal Way bedroom. A female driver hit a tree and drove through a fence before crashing into the home, hitting the woman sleeping inside just before 3 a.m. There were two women and a 2-year-old child in the car at the time. All four people involved in the incident on the 900 block of 319th Place SW sustained minor injuries.
- PUB DATE: 11/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: King 5

Fayetteville (TN) Fire Department pumper. Spartan Metro Star cab and chassis; Cummins ISL9 450-hp engine; Waterous CSU 1,500-gpm pump.

Fayetteville (TN) Fire Department pumper. Spartan Metro Star cab and chassis; Cummins ISL9 450-hp engine; Waterous CSU 1,500-gpm pump.

Snohomish County Fire District 7 reports a man was killed while trying to move a single-wide mobile home from his property in the 26700 block of Old Pipeline Road in Monroe on Wednesday, Nov. 22. The victim was reportedly attempting to remove the mobile home when it collapsed on top of him, according to Fire District 7, which was dispatched to the scene around noon last Wednesday.
- PUB DATE: 11/26/2017 10:57:04 AM - SOURCE: Monroe Monitor