Voters in the April 25 special election overwhelmingly agreed fire districts 14 and 18 (Stanwood and Kackman areas) should be dissolved. In District 14, more than 86 percent of voters favored dissolution, while 83 percent of voters favored dissolution in District 18. Both districts have received fire services from North County Regional Fire Authority (North County) since it formed in 2008, and will continue to do so.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2017 3:22:00 AM - SOURCE: Stanwood/Camano News

A Seattle Fire dive team rescued a woman from the water off Pier 54 on Elliott Bay on Tuesday evening. Firefighters were called to the pier just after 5 p.m. after reports the woman had jumped into the water. Crews said the woman was not hurt. She was taken to Harborview Medical Center for a mental evaluation.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2017 2:28:41 AM - SOURCE: seattlepi.com

Clark County Fire District 3 is preparing for good times or bad. The fire district, which serves 40,000 people, is considering asking voters to approve a fire levy lid lift in November. If they decide to go to ballot, the Board of Fire Commissioners want residents to know they have a plan in place whether the measure passes or fails.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2017 2:15:27 AM - SOURCE: The Reflector.com

Trouble with Pierce County’s 911 system hasn’t put the public or law enforcement in specific danger, according to a recent whistleblower investigation. A Puyallup emergency dispatcher alleged in a December whistleblower complaint that the county’s computer-aided dispatch system had been routinely freezing.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2017 1:55:36 AM - SOURCE: Tacoma News Tribune

A Gibbsboro firefighter died Friday from complications involving a leg injury he suffered during a mandatory training exercise nearly three weeks earlier. According to the U.S. Fire Administration, Gibbsboro volunteer firefighter William "Bill" Gerace died because of a pulmonary embolism, which an autopsy found was directly attributed as a complication of a leg fracture he sustained during live burn training April 10.
- PUB DATE: 5/3/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse