Public safety personnel worked millions of dollars in overtime for the city of Vancouver and Clark County last year, and men earned most of it. Out of the top-50 overtime earners in the city in 2015, one was a woman. In the county, four were women. Fire Battalion Chief Kevin Griffee took home the most overtime in the city, earning $88,311 last year in addition to his base salary of $129,528.
- PUB DATE: 6/19/2016 6:47:25 AM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian

A Port Angeles teen was arrested for investigation of vehicular assault after the SUV he was driving plunged almost 400 feet down a Black Diamond Road embankment, the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office said. Gunner S. Gallauher, 18, was booked into the Clallam County jail Friday after the wreck, which was reported to Clallam County Fire District No.
- PUB DATE: 6/19/2016 2:53:39 AM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

It’s often only seconds that stand in the way of a family’s home burning to the ground or a gunman firing off more rounds in a crowded mall. Precious seconds are lost if firefighters have to race downstairs from a sleeping dorm to jump into a fire engine. Or a patrol officer has been called off the streets to clear a restroom and then wait outside the door for a man on trial at City Hall.
- PUB DATE: 6/18/2016 1:45:58 AM - SOURCE: Tukwila Reporter

The Union Pacific oil train that derailed June 3 in Mosier, Oregon, rolled into the Port of Tacoma Sunday with little notice, despite the intense scrutiny its wreck, spill and fire attracted to the expanding practice of shipping crude oil by rail through the Columbia River gorge and the greater Pacific Northwest.
- PUB DATE: 6/18/2016 1:44:51 AM - SOURCE: Tacoma News Tribune