Lewis County officials are defending their recent decision to hire controversial interim manager David Anderson to continue leading Lewis County’s E911 Communications Center, despite continued concerns from law enforcement leaders and a vote of no-confidence from his own staff. Lewis County Central Services Director Steve Walton summed the matter up as “old news” while confirming that the Centralia and Chehalis police departments were not involved in the process, despite pointed criticism of Anderson earlier this year.
- PUB DATE: 10/14/2016 3:22:26 AM - SOURCE: Centralia Chronicle

For three Lewis County Fire District 3 residents, a routine visit to the district’s main station in Mossyrock last month served as a major wake-up call. “We have natural skylights — that means holes,” said Ron Palmer. Palmer, along with Fire District 3 residents Jack DeGoede and Butch Senter, were aware that the November ballot would include a third attempt by the district to replace the cramped, aging building, but didn’t understand the scope of the problem until they saw the rust-pitted walls and roof for themselves.
- PUB DATE: 10/14/2016 3:11:49 AM - SOURCE: Centralia Chronicle

Lawyers for an East Hills man awaiting a retrial for a 1995 fire that killed three firefighters say his murder case should be dismissed because investigators' misdeeds in the first trial trigger Pennsylvania's “double jeopardy” protections. Gregory Brown, Jr., 39, was convicted in 1997 on three counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of firefighters Patricia Conroy, Marc Kolenda and Capt.
- PUB DATE: 10/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

In the town of Delafield a firefighter and his three-year-old son are having a shared experience no one would wish for. Both have been diagnosed with brain tumors and critical treatment lies ahead for the young child especially. Nicholas Stacey and his three-year-old son Brayden have found support in the firefighting and emergency responder community.
- PUB DATE: 10/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee

City officials remain mum on whether the fire chief faced discipline for writing an email in which he asked one of his inspectors to delete the “bad parts” of video of the Cole Creek Fire. City manager V.H. McDonald declined to comment Tuesday about the email fire chief Kenneth King sent as firefighters continued to battle the flames.
- PUB DATE: 10/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Casper Star-Tribune