One man is dead after a house fire near Mukilteo Boulevard Monday afternoon. Michael “Mike” Elke died in a fire at his childhood home the 5000 block of Ocean Avenue in Everett. He was 76. Around 1:25 p.m., a caller reported that Mike’s house was engulfed in flames, Everett Fire Marshall Rick Robinson said.
- PUB DATE: 1/26/2016 1:48:06 AM - SOURCE: Mukilteo Beacon

One man is dead after a house fire near Mukilteo Boulevard Monday afternoon. Michael “Mike” Elke died in a fire at his childhood home the 5000 block of Ocean Avenue in Everett. He was 76. Around 1:25 p.m., a caller reported that Mike’s house was engulfed in flames, Everett Fire Marshall Rick Robinson said.
- PUB DATE: 1/26/2016 1:48:06 AM - SOURCE: Mukilteo Beacon

An off-duty Williamsburg fire lieutenant, a retired Newport News firefighter, a York-Poquoson sheriff's deputy and neighbors are being called heroes after they saved a woman from a burning trailer in York County on Monday. York County firefighters were dispatched to the fire at the Harwood Mills trailer park just after 1 p.
- PUB DATE: 1/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Williamsburg Virginia Gazette & Williamsburg Magazine

A Kansas City woman pleaded not guilty Monday in connection to the October 2015 fire that killed two firefighters and injured two others. During Thu Hong Nguyen’s arraignment on Monday, her attorney waived the reading of the charges and Nguyen pleaded not guilty to arson and two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of second-degree assault for the firefighters who were hurt, and causing catastrophe, which is a Class A felony.
- PUB DATE: 1/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDAF-TV Fox 4 Kansas City News

The chief said Monday that a six-figure deficit appeared in the Fire Department budget recently because the acting city auditor miscalculated the number of firefighters' salaries that had to be funded in relation to when a grant expired. The budget was supposed to fund 72 firefighter salaries with the help of a federal SAFER (Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response) grant but a routine analysis showed that with expiration of the grant, only 67 were funded, Fire Chief John A.
- PUB DATE: 1/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Springfield Union-News & Sunday Republican