A house on Lake Tapps’ Snag Island is a total loss after an early Sunday fire, according to East Pierce Fire and Rescue. Dispatchers received calls about a fire at the home on the 21000 block of Snag Island Drive East about 11:30 a.m. Nobody was injured in the blaze. There are no fire hydrants on Snag Island, so firefighters had to bring water tenders to the island.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2016 2:44:15 AM - SOURCE: Tacoma News Tribune

Fire heavily damaged a 100-year-old home at 2128 Franklin St. in the Sunnyland neighborhood north of Bellingham High, fire officials said Sunday, May 8. “Three men lived at the home, and one of the men was working in the yard when he heard a window break and saw smoke was pouring out,” said Assistant Chief Bill Hewett of the Bellingham Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2016 1:57:22 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald

Fire heavily damaged a 100-year-old home at 2128 Franklin St. in the Sunnyland neighborhood north of Bellingham High, fire officials said Sunday, May 8. “Three men lived at the home, and one of the men was working in the yard when he heard a window break and saw smoke was pouring out,” said Assistant Chief Bill Hewett of the Bellingham Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2016 1:57:22 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald

A volunteer firefighter in Johnston County died after responding to a vehicle crash in Kenly on Saturday, officials said. John Morris Davis Jr., 45, a Kenly firefighter, was among fire crews who responded to a crash on Princeton-Kenly Road, the fire department said a statement to the media. “He just wanted to help people, whether it was helping people at the fire station or helping the public,” said Tim Little, Kenly Asst.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNCN-TV NBC 17

The Old Orchard Beach fire chief – who has worked previously at numerous fire departments in Maine and elsewhere in New England and the U.S. – was charged with arson early Saturday for allegedly setting the April 15 fire that burned 42 acres of the Jones Creek Marsh and forced the evacuation of a nearby condominium complex.
- PUB DATE: 5/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Central Maine