A gunman opened fire on an outdoor country music concert from a Mandalay Bay hotel room late Sunday, killing at least 58 people, injuring more than 500 and sending the Las Vegas Strip into chaos. The massacre is the deadliest mass shooting in United States history. As officers entered the 32nd-floor room of the suspect, 64-year-old Mesquite resident Stephen Paddock, he shot and killed himself, police said early Monday.
- PUB DATE: 10/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal

The South Snohomish County Fire and Rescue Regional Fire Authority (RFA) met for the first time on Sunday to establish the authority as a governing body, swear in the RFA board and swear in the new fire chief. The group met on Sunday because it was Oct. 1, which is the first date the RFA could officially form based on a ballot that was approved by 54.
- PUB DATE: 10/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lynnwood Today

Firefighters had to free a man Sunday afternoon after a tree fell on him in his backyard. Eastside Fire and Rescue says a man in his 70s was on a ladder cutting a tree when the ladder fell and the tree trapped him Firefighters manged to free him, and he was taken to a hospital. The man reportedly suffered a fractured leg The incident occurred in the 18900 block of Southeast May Valley Road.
- PUB DATE: 10/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO News