Hello Puget Sound Fire. Goodbye Kent Regional Fire Authority. Starting Jan. 1, the Kent RFA will officially change its name to Puget Sound RFA, but use the name Puget Sound Fire. The RFA board approved the change in July to give the department a name that reflects its regional reach. The fire authority serves Kent, Covington, SeaTac and Fire District 37.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 1:01:42 PM - SOURCE: Kent Reporter

Two people have been arrested for investigation of arson after a mobile home in Forks burned early Christmas morning. Forks Police Chief Rick Bart said the two suspects were arrested within hours of the blaze, which started at about 3:30 a.m. and left the residents without a home. Adolfo Martinez Rodriguez, 29, was booked into the Clallam County jail by 2:44 p.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 7:42:05 AM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

The Honolulu Fire Department has received two separate citations in connection with a training incident that led to the death of a firefighter in June. HFD says it’s taking corrective action after the death of 63-year-old Clifford Riggsbee, who died from injuries sustained during a training exercise at an area called Suicides near Diamond Head.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: khon2.com

Six diesel ambulances with systemic exhaust problems have sickened Sacramento firefighters enough to send them to local emergency rooms as patients, the firefighters union and city said Friday. The city of Sacramento has removed those ambulances from the firefighting fleet and is planning to replace another eight units that may develop a similar problem.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sacramento Bee

If you want to understand how badly Democrats lost the white working class in the 2016 election, your local fire station is not a bad place to start. Nearly 85 percent of professional firefighters are white, and more than 95 percent are men, making them look a lot like the other blue-collar voters who surged to Donald Trump this year.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC News