Two people escaped unharmed when a double-wide mobile home was destroyed Wednesday night by a raging fire that started in the kitchen. About 24 firefighters from five departments responded to the call, which came in at 7:30 p.m. Fire crews arrived at about 7:50 p.m. to find the structure on Duckabush Road about 3 miles from U.
- PUB DATE: 4/8/2016 2:51:56 AM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

Six people escaped a powerboat fire Thursday afternoon, April 7, on Lake Whatcom. Five teenage boys and a man had been using the roughly 17-foot fiberglass boat to tow a blue inner tube as they enjoyed the 70-degree afternoon sunshine. They were playing a few hundred feet off the shoreline that’s between Geneva and Strawberry Point.
- PUB DATE: 4/8/2016 2:01:36 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald

Six people escaped a powerboat fire Thursday afternoon, April 7, on Lake Whatcom. Five teenage boys and a man had been using the roughly 17-foot fiberglass boat to tow a blue inner tube as they enjoyed the 70-degree afternoon sunshine. They were playing a few hundred feet off the shoreline that’s between Geneva and Strawberry Point.
- PUB DATE: 4/8/2016 2:01:36 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald

Mayor Kenney is expected to name Adam Thiel, deputy secretary of Virginia's Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs department, as the next leader of Philadelphia's fire department, according to three sources with knowledge of the choice. Thiel, formerly the fire chief of Alexandria, Va., has worked in fire and emergency services for more than two decades in four different states, according to a biography describing his current role in Virginia.
- PUB DATE: 4/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: philly.com

Hired by Tampa Fire Rescue in late 2008, Tanja Vidovic became pregnant about a year later. A fire captain told her "this would not have happened if she had kept her legs closed," Vidovic alleges in a federal lawsuit against the city of Tampa. Vidovic, one of several female firefighters who raised concerns about the department's treatment of women in its ranks in the Tampa Bay Times last spring, filed suit on March 23.
- PUB DATE: 4/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: tampa bay times