A fire station on the Tacoma Tideflats that’s been shuttered for nearly a decade could see new life in 2018, per an agreement between the city of Tacoma, the Port of Tacoma and Puget Sound Energy. The Tacoma City Council will vote on the agreement at its Tuesday meeting. The regional energy giant is moving ahead on a planned liquid natural gas plant on a 28-acre site north of the intersection of East 11th Street and Taylor Way at the port.
- PUB DATE: 11/10/2015 7:26:30 AM - SOURCE: Tacoma News Tribune

A fire station on the Tacoma Tideflats that’s been shuttered for nearly a decade could see new life in 2018, per an agreement between the city of Tacoma, the Port of Tacoma and Puget Sound Energy. The Tacoma City Council will vote on the agreement at its Tuesday meeting. The regional energy giant is moving ahead on a planned liquid natural gas plant on a 28-acre site north of the intersection of East 11th Street and Taylor Way at the port.
- PUB DATE: 11/10/2015 7:26:30 AM - SOURCE: Tacoma News Tribune

One person was found dead in a Kirkland house fire early Sunday morning. Multiple units from the Kirkland Fire Department (KFD) responded to a house fire at approximately 1 a.m. on Nov. 8 in the 7300 block of 120th Avenue NE where Kenneth Hanson, 62, was found dead. The official cause of death, according to the King County Medical Examiner, is “inhalation of toxic products of combustion and thermal burns,” and the examiner has ruled the death an accident.
- PUB DATE: 11/10/2015 2:24:31 AM - SOURCE: Kirkland Reporter

One person was found dead in a Kirkland house fire early Sunday morning. Multiple units from the Kirkland Fire Department (KFD) responded to a house fire at approximately 1 a.m. on Nov. 8 in the 7300 block of 120th Avenue NE where Kenneth Hanson, 62, was found dead. The official cause of death, according to the King County Medical Examiner, is “inhalation of toxic products of combustion and thermal burns,” and the examiner has ruled the death an accident.
- PUB DATE: 11/10/2015 2:24:31 AM - SOURCE: Kirkland Reporter

The wildfires of 2014 were the worst in Washington state history. One obvious lesson that year was that our state should ramp up its firefighting capacity to better respond to forest fires. Clearly our region’s climate was changing and our forests were becoming more diseased and tinder dry. Our Legislature, caught in a financial and political squeeze over school funding in early 2015, didn’t heed the warnings Mother Nature was sending.
- PUB DATE: 11/10/2015 2:19:53 AM - SOURCE: Olympian