The Anacortes Fire Department has new volunteer recruits and a reinvigorated program after a city contractor spent five months reworking the program. The City Council OK’d a contract for Aug. 1-Dec. 31 for about $26,000 to focus on the program. The department now has two types of volunteers — shift firefighters and support volunteers.
- PUB DATE: 1/14/2016 2:43:51 AM - SOURCE: Go Anacortes.com

The Anacortes Fire Department has new volunteer recruits and a reinvigorated program after a city contractor spent five months reworking the program. The City Council OK’d a contract for Aug. 1-Dec. 31 for about $26,000 to focus on the program. The department now has two types of volunteers — shift firefighters and support volunteers.
- PUB DATE: 1/14/2016 2:43:51 AM - SOURCE: Go Anacortes.com

Frank Mestemacher will begin his six-year term as a fire commissioner for South Whidbey Fire/EMS at the district’s first regular monthly meeting of the year on Jan. 14. Elected in November, Mestemacher will replace longtime commissioner Mike Helland. Mestemacher, a Freeland resident, served as a volunteer firefighter for 15 years and left the department as a captain.
- PUB DATE: 1/14/2016 1:43:51 AM - SOURCE: South Whidbey Record

Frank Mestemacher will begin his six-year term as a fire commissioner for South Whidbey Fire/EMS at the district’s first regular monthly meeting of the year on Jan. 14. Elected in November, Mestemacher will replace longtime commissioner Mike Helland. Mestemacher, a Freeland resident, served as a volunteer firefighter for 15 years and left the department as a captain.
- PUB DATE: 1/14/2016 1:43:51 AM - SOURCE: South Whidbey Record

Members of the Fremont County Fire Protection District are mourning the loss of Deputy Chief Clarence “Speed” Hartbank. The 45-year member of the department passed away Wednesday afternoon. Hartbank was commanding a Sept. 10 grass fire on Eight Mile Road. While he was surveying damage to a ground-level bunker, he fell through a hole and into the fire.
- PUB DATE: 1/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse