Wildfires and drought in California, hurricanes and flooding in Florida and power outages in Texas have rendered all three states distinctly less livable in recent years. People still flock to Florida and Texas, drawn by low taxes and warmth. (California, not so much.) But climate change is on everyone’s minds, and dire dispatches about fires and floods dominate the daily news cycle.
- PUB DATE: 3/16/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Hill

A worker in a cherry-picker bucket was rescued after a lift partly tipped over Wednesday at a construction site in north Everett. Photos showed a Genie boom lift that folded awkwardly at the base around 1:30 p.m., while its bucket was three or four stories in the air near the Kaiser Permanente Everett Medical Center at 2930 Maple St.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2023 2:00:00 PM - SOURCE: Everett Herald - Metered Site

Read the features and news on fire trucks and fire equipment from the March 2023 issue of Fire Apparatus & Emergency Equipment magazine.

Crews battled a fire at a Jack in the Box fast food restaurant Wednesday morning. The restaurant is in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, north of the Fred Meyer store. Seattle Fire Department spokesman David Cuerpo said calls about smoke and flames coming from the restaurant on Northwest Leary Way and 11th Avenue started coming in at 4:15 a.
- PUB DATE: 3/15/2023 11:24:00 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle

Florissant Fire-Rescue District held a special ceremony to dedicate its newest light rescue truck as an addition to the fleet, mountainjackport.com reported.

Members of the community then helped push the light rescue rig into the garage to signify its status as officially being in commission to help serve those in the community who are in need, the report said.