An explosion that destroyed a New York City home and killed a firefighter has drawn attention to marijuana-making methods that are legal in many states — but can also be lethal. A New York fire battalion chief died responding to the blast Tuesday in a Bronx home that authorities say had been converted into an indoor marijuana farm.
- PUB DATE: 10/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Yahoo.com

An elected commissioner of North Whatcom Fire and Rescue is suing his own fire district in small claims court over $1,000 in personal gear that went missing. Meanwhile, the district’s fire chief questions whether the commissioner, Dean Berkeley, is even eligible to serve, in light of a statement he made at a city council hearing in July in White Rock, a border city in British Columbia just north of Blaine.
- PUB DATE: 10/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald

The Coast Guard says as much as 100 gallons of fuel spilled when a fire damaged boats at a marina in Tacoma. Six boats burst into flames Sunday morning at Tyee marina in Tacoma, sending up clouds of black smoke and scattered debris. Two boats partially sank and one sank completely A witness on nearby says he was awakened by the explosion and saw the boats engulfed in flames.
- PUB DATE: 10/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO News

The fire truck is built on a 2015 Spartan custom cab and was manufactured by Hub Fire Engines and Equipment.

Clallam County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a 24-year-old convicted arsonist who escaped the Frank Lee Work Release Center in Alabama. Dylan Carroll escaped from the center in Deatsville, Ala., on Sept. 23, stole a 2016 Chevrolet pickup and drove to the Olympic Peninsula, according to a press release from the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office.
- PUB DATE: 10/2/2016 3:44:31 PM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News