Nearly three years after questions arose about best practices for Vashon’s paramedic service, change to that service is underway. As of today, when islanders who are critically ill or injured need emergency medical care, it will not be Vashon Island Fire & Rescue paramedics who tend to them, but a team of rotating paramedics who work for South King County Medic One.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2017 1:05:51 PM - SOURCE: Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber

A male Union Pacific railroad worker was killed by a train on Tuesday morning. John P. Schneider, 54, of Spokane Valley, was “killed instantly, in a railroad accident” in Wallula, according to Walla Walla County Coroner Richard Greenwood. Walla Walla Fire District 5 responded to a call for help at 5:30 a.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2017 10:53:41 AM - SOURCE: Mid-Columbia Tri-City Herald - Metered Site

The Washington Fire Mechanics are proud to announce that Whatcom Electric & Battery has become the sole sponsor of the popular creeper drag event held at the WFM annual conference. We are very excited that Whatcom Electric & Battery has elected to be the first exclusive multi year sponsor of this event. It will be unveiled next fall as the Whatcom Electric & Battery Creeper Drags. The event will be held at our new conference location for 2017 The Wenatchee Conference Center

Officials have identified three homicide victims found inside a burning home Friday night near Seabeck in Kitsap County. In addition, the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office says that a fourth victim found inside a burned-out pickup truck in Mason County also died of "homicidal violence." The identity of that victim has not been released.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2017 9:01:50 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

In a cramped room at the back of the Spokane Fire Department Training Complex, Tom Heckler houses artifacts dating back more than a century. “They always told me, they can’t build a museum,” Heckler said, seated in a chair next to a humming tower server that fills part of his 300-square-foot exhibit.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2017 8:49:26 AM - SOURCE: Spokane Spokesman-Review