The city of Chehalis plans to make finding a new home for its fire department “a priority for 2018,” citing concerns about its 90-year-old building’s suitability to be a modern fire station, City Manager Jill Anderson told The Chronicle this week. “Because of the building’s historic nature, it wasn’t built to be a fire station.
- PUB DATE: 11/16/2017 3:13:34 AM - SOURCE: Centralia Chronicle

PHOTOS - St. Louis firefighters are battling a huge, five-alarm fire in a warehouse that sent a plume of thick black smoke up from the Botanical Heights neighborhood. A fire truck was smashed when a wall of the building collapsed about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday. The fire started small in the basement of the warehouse near 39th Street and Park Avenue about 10:15.
- PUB DATE: 11/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Louis Post Dispatch

The Dallas City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a $61.7 million settlement for four of six long-running back pay lawsuits filed by police and firefighters. The sizable agreement avoids hundreds of millions in claims that would have been owed if a Collin County jury had ruled in favor of the public safety workers.
- PUB DATE: 11/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Dallas Morning News

Not many people have had Robert De Niro star as them in a blockbuster film, but that is the case for a former Sandwich Fire Chief who passed away, this week. Donald Rimgale was 77 years old when he passed away peacefully in his Elmhurst home on Monday. WSPY reported in July of 2016 that Rimgale retired as Sandwich Fire Chief.
- PUB DATE: 11/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSPYNews.com

The volunteers who make up the Julian Fire Protection District have demanded their fire chief be dismissed and have served recall papers on the board president. The move escalates an already volatile situation in the historic mountain town where the community and leaders of the fire district have been at odds with each other for years about whether to join the county's Fire Authority or remain independent despite ongoing financial problems.
- PUB DATE: 11/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Diego Union-Tribune