Pateros Mayor Carlene Anders is also Executive Director of the Long Term Recovery Program serving victims of the devastating wildfires of 2014 and 2014 in Chelan, Douglas and Okanogan Counties. She has been a chief instigator of involving the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) in recovery efforts in NCW.
- PUB DATE: 6/8/2017 2:48:42 AM - SOURCE: Lake Chelan Mirror

A man whose boat overturned in the Tacoma Narrows on Wednesday afternoon was able to safely swim to shore with the help of a passing train crew, according to the Tacoma Fire Department. Destiny, Tacoma Fire’s boat, was dispatched about 1 p.m. to a call of a person in the water south of the Tacoma Narrows bridges, department spokesman Joe Meinecke said.
- PUB DATE: 6/8/2017 1:52:16 AM - SOURCE: Tacoma News Tribune

Neil Svetanics, former chief of the St. Louis Fire Department and the Lemay Fire Protection District, died Wednesday (June 7, 2017) after a brief lung illness. He was 77 and lived in St. Louis Hills. Mr. Svetanics joined the St. Louis Fire Department in 1962 and moved up in ranks, serving as chief from 1986 to 1999.
- PUB DATE: 6/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Louis Post Dispatch

Warren firefighters, digging with their bare hands and metal shovels, rescued a Howell man trapped in a collapsed trench on Tuesday, Warren Mayor Jim Fouts said. The 37-year-old man was rushed to Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, where he was in serious condition, the mayor wrote on his Facebook page Tuesday.
- PUB DATE: 6/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Detroit Free Press

The risk firefighters face for developing job-related cancers was well known in the fire service long before elected officials and the national news media started taking more notice in recent years and cast a brighter light on the issue. There are 37 states that have passed cancer presumption laws for firefighters, which provide workers' compensation benefits for those with certain types of cancers directly attributed to the job.
- PUB DATE: 6/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse.com