Not all classrooms are set in school buildings and lecture halls. In the common area of South Whidbey Fire/EMS Station 31 in Freeland, an eclectic group of students surround a patient sitting upright. A retired physician, an aspiring armed serviceman in his 20s and an active medical researcher work together to apply a neckbrace and Kendrick Extrication Device — basically a back brace — before lifting the patient and laying him on the ground.
- PUB DATE: 4/9/2017 1:11:03 PM - SOURCE: South Whidbey Record

A firefighter’s sense of security was burned after a crook smashed his windows and took gear out of his car. It happened near 7th and Howard in Spokane. Robert, who didn’t want to give his last name, told us whoever smashed his windows with a rock, did some pretty bad damage but he’s not the only victim.
- PUB DATE: 4/9/2017 11:07:23 AM - SOURCE: KAYU-TV MyFox Spokane

One boat sank and two others were damaged after a fire broke out early Saturday at Seattle’s Shilshole Bay Marina. Seattle Fire Department responded to the marina’s M Dock just after midnight and found a fire that had started on one boat, spread to a second, and endangering a third. The boats were not occupied.
- PUB DATE: 4/9/2017 2:26:35 AM - SOURCE: Seattle Times

A man was killed in an early morning 2-alarm house fire in Port Townsend on Saturday. Firefighters arrived at the home on the 300 block of Cook Ave. Extension shortly after the fire was reported at 7:44 a.m. Flames were coming from the house’s walkout basement, according to East Jefferson Fire Rescue Public Information Officer Bill Beezley.
- PUB DATE: 4/8/2017 7:52:09 PM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5

Voters in Clark County Fire District 10 will decide in the election on April 25 whether they want to pay for 24-hour emergency staffing around the district. The fire district, with the only item on the April election’s ballot, is proposing increasing its property tax levy rate from 68 cents to $1 per $1,000 of assessed property value.
- PUB DATE: 4/8/2017 5:58:42 PM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian