The Yakima City Council has directed staff to look into doing a feasibility study to determine whether forming a Regional Fire Authority would help better fund the city's fire services in the long run. While the city's general fund is fine for this budget cycle, there's a projected shortfall of more than $7 million for 2025-26 and they're looking to make significant cuts now.
- PUB DATE: 6/8/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

PHOTO: Last Wednesday, volunteer firefighters responded to a second structure fire in Wahkiakum County in less than a week. The first was on May 28 on Altoona/Pillar Rock Road. The second fire, unrelated, was on Puget Island. According to Tom Merz, the incident commander for the event on Puget Island on May 31, crews were dispatched for a structure fire on South Welcome Slough at 8:36 p.
- PUB DATE: 6/8/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Wahkiakum County Eagle

PHOTOS: Multiple agencies responded Tuesday night to a structure fire on James Island. According to Charleston County Dispatch, the fire was on the 1900 block of Wild Wing Lane. Witness photos and video showed flames engulfing a raised home, with the fire threatening to spread to nearby cars, homes, and trees.
- PUB DATE: 6/7/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCBD-TV NBC 2 Charleston

VIDEO: Tulsa firefighters should have the ability to use medicinal marijuana to relieve pain and other job-related stress, says Tulsa Firefighters Local 176 Union President Matt Lay. "Originally, it was brought to us by a lot of service members that talked about being able to move away from schedule 2 narcotics and a litany of prescriptions they were on, using cannabis-based products," Lay said.
- PUB DATE: 6/7/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOKI-TV FOX 23 Tulsa

The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a deadly car crash on Interstate 395 in Southwest D.C. on Sunday. At approximately 7:45 p.m., a Hyundai Elantra was traveling south in the Ninth Street tunnel, police said. The driver of the car began to take the westbound ramp and struck the jersey wall twice for reasons unknown, causing the car to crash over the wall and onto the southbound I-395 below.
- PUB DATE: 6/7/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJLA-TV ABC 7 Washington DC