Fire damaged a home on Mercer Island Wednesday night. A neighbor reported the fire just before 6:00 p.m. in the 4100 block of 96th Ave SE. Firefighters from Bellevue and Mercer Island responded to the scene. Crews aggressively attacked the fire and were able to knock down the flames within minutes of their arrival.
- PUB DATE: 8/10/2017 3:29:57 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

Grant County has seen its share of mass casualty events: a school shooting, chemical releases in the 1980s and 1990s and one of the largest aviation disasters on record. On Tuesday, Big Bend Community College, first responders and other area partners came together for a Mass Casualty Incident exercise.
- PUB DATE: 8/10/2017 3:12:19 AM - SOURCE: iFiberOne

Jefferson County officials, emergency responders and area volunteers came together for a drill Wednesday for using sea planes to transport people after a natural disaster. The exercise was based at the beach on Kala Point and included teams from the Navy, East Jefferson Fire-Rescue, the Jefferson County Department of Emergency Management and others.
- PUB DATE: 8/10/2017 2:59:42 AM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

The Cle Elum City Council authorized Mayor Jay McGowan to sign an inter-local agreement with the town of South Cle Elum for emergency services (fire and medical) at a council meeting on Tuesday. The resolution reestablishes an agreement the two departments had prior to June 15, 2009, in which both departments responded to each other’s emergency calls.
- PUB DATE: 8/10/2017 1:53:04 AM - SOURCE: Ellensburg Daily Record

Everything failed in an instant. Severed lines snuffed out power to the command center directing the emergency response to the deadly Gatlinburg wildfires the night of Nov. 28 and plunged firefighting and rescue efforts into darkness and chaos. Sevier County began releasing records Wednesday documenting the confusion caused by the collapse of communications systems as fire swept into the city.
- PUB DATE: 8/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Knoxville News Sentinel