One man was killed overnight when a suspected drunk driver crashed at high speed into his car and an ambulance just outside Swedish Medical Center, police and fire officials said. None of the five people in the ambulance was hurt. The causing driver sustained minor injuries and was placed under arrest, police said.
- PUB DATE: 3/16/2016 7:39:25 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

One man was killed overnight when a suspected drunk driver crashed at high speed into his car and an ambulance just outside Swedish Medical Center, police and fire officials said. None of the five people in the ambulance was hurt. The causing driver sustained minor injuries and was placed under arrest, police said.
- PUB DATE: 3/16/2016 7:39:25 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

New mandates from the Fire Department to make apartment complexes add fire alarms are sweeping Everett. At least 19 apartment buildings across the city do not have the appropriate fire alarm systems. But just as the halls at The Bluffs apartments were initially silent for lack of a fire alarm system alerting to the rapidly spreading fire in the building on New Year’s Eve, there has been silence for several years on whether The Bluffs and similar complexes are following a 2007 code to have a fire alarm system.
- PUB DATE: 3/16/2016 6:36:33 AM - SOURCE: Snohomish County News

New mandates from the Fire Department to make apartment complexes add fire alarms are sweeping Everett. At least 19 apartment buildings across the city do not have the appropriate fire alarm systems. But just as the halls at The Bluffs apartments were initially silent for lack of a fire alarm system alerting to the rapidly spreading fire in the building on New Year’s Eve, there has been silence for several years on whether The Bluffs and similar complexes are following a 2007 code to have a fire alarm system.
- PUB DATE: 3/16/2016 6:36:33 AM - SOURCE: Snohomish County News

A lawsuit challenging the city of Topeka’s contract with an interim fire chief will move forward, but a temporary injunction seeking to block the contract won’t. Shawnee County District Court Judge Rebecca Crotty allowed the case to proceed, as long as state Rep. John Alcala, a former Topeka city councilman, can prove the city’s contract with Goodyear, Ariz.
- PUB DATE: 3/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Topeka Capital-Journal