VIDEO: A new alerting system has been installed across all Spokane Valley Fire Department stations, with the goal of reducing response times and improving overall firefighter health. “It’s easy when you love the job. We love what we do, certainly there are stressors,” SVFD Station 7 Firefighter/Paramedic Jeff Smetzler said.
- PUB DATE: 4/12/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6 Spokane

Three people were treated for injuries after an apartment caught fire in West Seattle Tuesday night. One of the people injured was a Seattle firefighter. According to the Seattle Fire Department (SFD), crews responded to the 2200 block of Alki Avenue Southwest around 10:35 p.m. Tuesday after receiving reports of smoke coming from an apartment building.
- PUB DATE: 4/12/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

With firefighters retiring early, departments losing members, members experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder and more, South King County fire chiefs decided in March 2022 to meet to find a solution to the escalating mental health crisis in firefighting. The nature of calls has changed in recent years, said Chuck DeSmith, deputy chief of emergency medical services and safety for Renton Regional Fire Authority.
- PUB DATE: 4/12/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Renton Reporter - Metered Site

VIDEO/PHOTOS: Tacoma Fire crews are putting out the remaining spot fires on a fishing vessel that's been burning since Saturday, and on Tuesday, warned it could be several more days before investigators can board to find out what sparked it. Firefighters are working in four-hour rotations spraying the outside of the Kodiak Enterprise fishing vessel to cool the hull.
- PUB DATE: 4/12/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

On April 15, 2013, Dzhokar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev walked to a crowded area near the finish line of the Boston Marathon with backpacks containing homemade pressure-cooker shrapnel bombs filled with BBs and nails. The two brothers separated, each finding a spot packed with spectators to place their bombs.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Republican - MassLive