Fire in a detached garage destroyed a vinyl album collection worth an estimated $100,000 late Saturday, Jan. 9, according to an initial report from East Jefferson Fire Rescue. No one was injured. East Jefferson Fire Rescue was toned to the fire in the 600 block of Crutcher Road off Cape George Road outside Port Townsend at 10:35 p.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2016 4:02:24 AM - SOURCE: Port Townsend Leader

The Supreme Court kicks off the new year Monday seemingly poised to deal a major blow to the nation's public employee unions by wiping out, or at least weakening, a legal precedent that dates back nearly four decades. If the justices' recent rulings against organized labor are any guide, a deeply divided court is likely to make it harder for unions representing teachers, police and firefighters, and other government workers to collect fees from non-members.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: usa today

One San Diego firefighter was paid $210,500 in overtime alone in 2014, according to newly released figures about local government payrolls. That‘s more than the annual salary of the FBI director, at $178,700, and the U.S. Attorney General, at $199,000. Kyle Kutzke, 34, who’s listed as a firefighter 2 for San Diego, was paid that amount on top of $26,700 in base pay, according to data the city comptroller submitted to the open government group Transparent California and the State Controller’s Office.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the san diego union-tribune

PHOTO - A firefighter was reprimanded and two superiors reassigned after a depiction of a Jacksonville firefighter as a terrorist was posted on a fire station computer and left there for a week. The image, though described as a joke between two firefighters, was deemed offensive and insensitive and should never have been posted, let alone left for a week in December, said Fire Chief Kurtis Wilson.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the Florida times-union

A Detroit firefighter is in stable but serious condition at Detroit Receiving Hospital after he was overcome by smoke while responding to a commercial building fire on the west side Saturday night. Firefighters were called to the three-alarm fire at the building on Michigan Avenue and Martin Street just before 7:30 p.
- PUB DATE: 1/11/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXYZ-TV ABC Detroit