Voters overwhelmingly approved an $11 million, 20-year bond that Cowlitz 2 Fire & Rescue will use to build two new fire stations and buy a new fire engine. The money will be used to replace the crumbling Lexington station and the earthquake-vulnerable Baker’s Corner station in West Longview. The bond got a 66 percent “yes” vote in Tuesday’s general election.
- PUB DATE: 11/9/2016 2:43:13 AM - SOURCE: Longview Daily News

A Tuesday evening fire damaged a brand-new Gig Harbor home occupied for only two weeks, according to Gig Harbor Fire & Medic One. Firefighters were called about 6:45 p.m. between floors of the home in the 10500 block of Sentinel Drive, department spokeswoman Nanette Tatom said. “The fire started between floors of the home,” Tatom said.
- PUB DATE: 11/9/2016 2:39:09 AM - SOURCE: Tacoma News Tribune

Brookston Fire Chief Michael Payne raced to the scene of a vehicle fire early Tuesday, helped extinguish the fire then collapsed from an apparent heart attack. "We were out on a fire run. A semi was on fire on an exit ramp," Brookston Assistant Fire Chief Karl Stokes said, noting that the department was dispatched to the scene at 11:58 p.
- PUB DATE: 11/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lafayette Journal and Courier

One of the city's two deputy fire chiefs has chosen to retire instead of heed what he believes are improper and unethical orders from Fire Director Qareeb Bashir, a fire union president said Tuesday. Deputy Chief Robert Tharp was promoted earlier this year at a City Hall ceremony and in just over six months as a department leader has made measurable improvements to the department, firefighters' union president Wayne Wolk said.
- PUB DATE: 11/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NJ.com

A Sedona fire captain badly burned in a fire station fire continues to make progress and has been moved to an acute care unit at burn center. According to a news release from the Sedona Fire Department, Fire Capt. Matt Fleece suffered burns when a bbq grill he had been using near the rear of the station apparently caught fire and exploded.
- PUB DATE: 11/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse