Semiautomatic gunfire echoed in the hallways of The Covenant School, making a distinct noise teachers there would not soon forget. That was more than 14 months ago – before three children and three adults were gunned down on Monday in the stately stone school connected to Covenant Presbyterian Church, atop a tree-shrouded hill just south of downtown Nashville.
- PUB DATE: 4/3/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CNN

The Seattle Police Department (SPD) has released witness and surveillance video from a massive fire that destroyed dozens of boats at a Seattle storage facility along Lake Union earlier this month. Arther Arakelov, 31, is charged with first-degree arson in relation to the fire that destroyed 58 boats at the Seattle Boat Company on March 22.
- PUB DATE: 4/3/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KATU-TV ABC 2 Portland

PHOTOS: A person was airlifted to receive medical help after a single vehicle accident left them with severe injuries. Central Kitsap Fire & Rescue (CKFR) responded to a single vehicle accident at Gold Creek Road and Grada Creek Way where the driver was trapped inside. After stabilizing the crashed vehicle, firefighters safely extricated the driver.
- PUB DATE: 4/3/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

Two City of Pasco Directors have announced their retirements from decades of public service. Fire Chief Bob Gear will retire as of May 31. Gear started in the fire service in September of 1974, attending the fire program at Bates Vocational Technical in Tacoma. Then in 1976, Gear was hired by King County Fire District 43 in Maple Valley.
- PUB DATE: 4/2/2023 7:35:37 PM - SOURCE: City Of Pasco

The spot where A1A (Anastasia Boulevard) hits Red Cox Drive has had a history of crashes, some of them deadly, firstcoastnews.com reported.

The Florida Department of Transportation has paid for traffic studies in the area, the report said.

The studies propose plans to reconfigure the intersection. One option is loosely called the “peanut” and another option was nicknamed the “dog bone.” And the option the city of St. Augustine and the state are considering the most seems to be a third option – a roundabout, according to the report.

However, it means the St. Augustine fire station at that intersection would have to relocate. The latest idea being floated is to build a new fire station about a half a mile away in a wooded area immediately across from the St. Augustine Amphitheater, the report said.

A flyer about the plan from the city of St. Augustine states the current fire station was built in 1995 and “is painfully undersized and underequipped at 2,700 square feet.”

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