At 10:27 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 21, the Marysville Fire District was dispatched to a residential fire in the 6800 block of 69th Place NE. Firefighters arrived at 10:33 a.m. and located a fire in a single story residential building. Original reports stated that there was "Christmas tree on fire." The first arriving officer reported a single-story structure with flames and smoke visible from the front of the structure.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2015 2:03:29 AM - SOURCE: North Couty Outlook

The Jefferson County Board of Commissioners voted Monday to ban the small hot air balloons known as “sky lanterns” and clarify the process for enacting a total ban on fireworks when dry conditions create a fire danger. The vote, cast on a cold and wet first day of winter, was unanimous. The measure immediately enacts a ban on sky lanterns, which are defined in the ordinance as small hot air balloons with an opening at the bottom under which fire is suspended, allowing the balloon to rise.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2015 12:34:00 AM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

The Jefferson County Board of Commissioners voted Monday to ban the small hot air balloons known as “sky lanterns” and clarify the process for enacting a total ban on fireworks when dry conditions create a fire danger. The vote, cast on a cold and wet first day of winter, was unanimous. The measure immediately enacts a ban on sky lanterns, which are defined in the ordinance as small hot air balloons with an opening at the bottom under which fire is suspended, allowing the balloon to rise.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2015 12:34:00 AM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

Mayor Ras Baraka is turning to an old friend of the city as he begins a drastic overhaul of its public safety system. Anthony Ambrose was officially revealed as the city's acting public safety director at a City Hall press conference Monday morning. In the newly created position, he will oversee the city's police, fire and emergency management departments.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Newark Star-Ledger/NJ.com

The Mount Greenwood post office was renamed Sunday the "Captain Herbert Johnson Memorial Post Office," in honor of a beloved fallen Chicago firefighter. It was a ceremony to rename his neighborhood post office. Herbie Johnson was an Illinois Medal of Honor winner for rescuing several children from a burning building, and was well known and well liked in the department and in his South Side community.
- PUB DATE: 12/22/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLS-TV ABC 7 Chicago