Police officers and firefighters could receive a 7.5 percent salary increase in the city’s upcoming budget — a pay raise proponents say is necessary to retain good employees and compete with neighboring communities for new ones. “We’ve never fallen this far behind,” said City Councilman Mike Barber, who proposed the increase earlier this month.
- PUB DATE: 5/30/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: News & Record

A 15-year-old girl died Monday night in a crash involving a fire truck on I-94 in Ypsilanti, closing westbound lanes for several hours while Michigan State Police completed an accident investigation. The crash happened at about 11:15 p.m. near Grove Road. The Ypsilanti Fire Department said one of its rigs was assisting in an earlier rollover accident when a Ford Escape slammed into the back of the fire truck.
- PUB DATE: 5/30/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDIV-TV NBC 4 Detroit

A fire that broke out just before midnight Sunday at the Subway restaurant at 460 E. Main Street in Pullman has been ruled arson by a joint fire investigation task force in Pullman. Pullman Deputy Fire Marshal Tony Nuttman said the task force went through the charred evidence most of the morning and were able to determine there were apparent multiple points of origin of the fire.
- PUB DATE: 5/30/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KLEW-TV

A gasoline spill Monday in Whatcom Falls Park, near the site of the deadly 1999 fuel pipeline explosion and fire, caused some concern among Bellingham firefighters and pipeline company officials, but no leak was found. "Our best guess is that somebody either accidentally or intentionally introduced some gas into the storm drain," said Assistant Chief Bill Hewett of the Bellingham Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 5/30/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse

Saxtons River (VT) Fire Department, pumper-tanker. Freightliner M2 cab and chassis; Cummins ISL9 350-hp engine; Hale RDS 1,250-gpm PTO pump; UPF Poly 2,000-gallon wet side tank