Trimble (TN) Fire Department, pumper. Freightliner M2 cab and chassis; Cummins ISL 350-hp engine; Hale Qflo 1,250-gpm pump; UPF Poly 1,000-gallon tank.

During the August Primary Election, voters in Monroe Fire District 3 approved merging with Snohomish County Fire District 7 by almost 81 percent. Merging two fire agencies involves several steps. To that end Fire District 7 officials have released the following new information to insure that residents of both communities know and understand what the process is moving forward.
- PUB DATE: 8/24/2016 9:45:30 PM - SOURCE: Sky Valley Chronicle

The rush by the U.S. Forest Service to cut a fireline through critical fish and wildlife habitat to fight a fire that never came anywhere near has spurred a lawsuit in federal court. Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics (FSEEE), a Eugene, Ore.-based nonprofit, filed the lawsuit last week in U.
- PUB DATE: 8/24/2016 9:42:52 PM - SOURCE: Wenatchee World

Small fire departments have limited resources, but many of them in Snohomish County are sending what little they have — brush trucks, other apparatus and personnel -- to the fires in Eastern Washington. Sultan’s Chief Merlin Halvorson only has six full-time firefighters, but he sent two to Spokane County.
- PUB DATE: 8/24/2016 9:02:24 PM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7

VIDEOS: More than two dozen brand-new school buses were destroyed or damaged when a 2-alarm fire raged through a Puyallup school bus maintenance facility Wednesday afternoon. The fire broke out around 2:30 p.m. in the 300 block of 12th Street NW, sending a large plume of black smoke that was visible for miles, and explosions were heard in the area.
- PUB DATE: 8/24/2016 2:45:42 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000