Clallam County Fire District’s new leadership line of Battalion Chiefs are on the job. Stef Anderson, Chris Turner and Elliott Jones from Las Vegas Fire Department now oversee 24-hour shifts and its crews at three stations. They take over duties for on-call fire chiefs and assume day-to-day operations while serving below the fire chief and assistant chief positions as the “hub of the wheel that is the fire district,” leaders report.
- PUB DATE: 5/10/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sequim Gazette

PHOTOS: No one was more impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic than first-responders, Snoqualmie Tribal Councilmember Christopher Castleberry told audience members seated in front of the Snoqualmie Casino. While most were sheltering in place, he said, members of Eastside Fire & Rescue were braving the front lines, helping the Tribe facilitate a community vaccine clinic that saved potentially thousands of lives.
- PUB DATE: 5/10/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Snoqualmie Valley Record

The Seattle City Council unanimously voted in favor of extending protections to firefighters and EMTs when responding to emergencies. The legislation was proposed by councilmembers Lisa Herbold of District 1 and Andrew Lewis of District 7 following an alarming rise in on-the-scene assaults, threats and slurs made against firefighters responding to emergency calls.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2023 9:14:40 PM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13 Tacoma

PHOTOS: The eyes of the nation were on the Las Vegas valley, specifically Henderson, 35 years ago when a series of explosions at an industrial plant rocked the valley killing two people, leaving hundreds injured, causing more than $100 million in damage and impacting the NASA space shuttle program. In a 2018 interview with 8 News Now, retired Henderson Fire Captain Don Griffie was in one of the first engines heading to the reported fire at Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada, referred to as PEPCON, when the first explosion happened.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KLAS-TV CBS 8 Las Vegas

Iowa no longer has a mandatory retirement age for reserve police officers and volunteer firefighters. Full and part-time police and firefighters in Iowa must retire at the age of 65. The governor has signed a bill into law that eliminates that age restriction for volunteer firefighters and trained reserve police officers who are volunteers, but can make arrests and investigate crimes.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Radio Iowa