A fire destroyed a mobile home in Mead in the early hours of Monday. A family of six lived in the home but was away at the time because they did not have power after Tuesday's historic storm. They are all okay. Firefighters said the roofed collapsed as they arrived and the home burned to the ground.
- PUB DATE: 11/23/2015 6:20:56 PM - SOURCE: Northwest Cable News

Snohomish County Fire District 1 wants to change how it charges property owners, in a way the district says could be fairer for most taxpayers. There's a hitch, though. Even if voters give the thumbs up, there's no room for another charge on the tax bills sent by the Snohomish County's treasurer's office.
- PUB DATE: 11/23/2015 5:37:09 AM - SOURCE: Everett Herald

Snohomish County Fire District 1 wants to change how it charges property owners, in a way the district says could be fairer for most taxpayers. There's a hitch, though. Even if voters give the thumbs up, there's no room for another charge on the tax bills sent by the Snohomish County's treasurer's office.
- PUB DATE: 11/23/2015 5:37:09 AM - SOURCE: Everett Herald

PHOTO - A North Carolina man faces charges in an accident involving a tractor trailer, a fire truck and a Dinwiddie Sheriff's Office vehicle on I-85. Police have charged Lonnie Mixter of Highpoint, NC with reckless driving after his tractor trailer struck the fire truck, causing it to hit the sheriff's deputy car and split in half.
- PUB DATE: 11/23/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVR-TV CBS 6

Strong, shifting winds that dramatically fanned a wildfire near Twisp in Okanogan County in August pushed walls of flames and smoke onto a team of firefighters, catching them off-guard and forcing them to retreat blindly down a winding dirt road to their deaths, according to a joint state and federal report released Friday.
- PUB DATE: 11/23/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: seattle times