A potential fire levy lid lift may be in the works as Whatcom 4 faces low funding. The Whatcom County Fire District 4 Board of Commissioners will meet on Monday, May 1st, to discuss placing the levy increase on this year’s primary election ballot. If approved, it would keep Station 12 responding to emergency calls 24 hours a day.
- PUB DATE: 4/27/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KGMI-AM 790 Bellingham

PHOTO: Firefighters from North Whatcom Fire and Rescue stations 63, 72 and 69 joined Lynden Fire Department in a live-fire burn training exercise Thursday, April 20 at an abandoned home at the corner of Benson Road and Sunrise Drive. According to Lynden Assistant Fire Chief Kristie Watson, the purpose of the live-fire training was to enhance firefighter knowledge, skills and abilities in structural firefighting.
- PUB DATE: 4/26/2023 8:33:00 AM - SOURCE: Lynden Tribune

On April 26, 2018, an explosion and fire rocked the Husky Energy refinery in Superior. And after five years of reconstruction, the facility is beginning to reopen. "We have commenced restart of the refinery and introduced crude in late March," said Doreen Cole, senior vice president of downstream manufacturing at Cenovus, which now owns the refinery.
- PUB DATE: 4/26/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Duluth News Tribune

Newly released video shows the moment an 18-wheeler crashed into the back of a firetruck already on the scene of another crash in Smith County. The incident happened April 5, 2023, along Interstate 20 in Smith County. Thankfully, no first responders were seriously injured. Smith County ESD 2 Fire Chief Eric Greaser credits a blocking device on the back of the firetruck for the outcome.
- PUB DATE: 4/26/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KLTV ABC 7 Tyler

VIDEO: Seattle City Council members will soon vote on whether to approve a measure that would give Seattle Fire Department (SFD) personnel protections under the city's obstruction ordinance. Currently, Seattle law makes it a crime to physically interfere with "public officers" responding to emergencies, but it does not explicitly include all firefighters, EMTs and other personnel.
- PUB DATE: 4/26/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle