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

Port Ludlow Fire & Rescue Chief Brad Martin recently received his certificate of completion for the National Fire Academy's Executive Fire Office Program (EFOP). The EFOP spans a four-year period, with four mandatory core courses divided into two-week resident classes that provide senior fire officers with a broad perspective on various facets of fire and emergency services administration.
- PUB DATE: 11/10/2015 12:38:56 AM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

Port Ludlow Fire & Rescue Chief Brad Martin recently received his certificate of completion for the National Fire Academy's Executive Fire Office Program (EFOP). The EFOP spans a four-year period, with four mandatory core courses divided into two-week resident classes that provide senior fire officers with a broad perspective on various facets of fire and emergency services administration.
- PUB DATE: 11/10/2015 12:38:56 AM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

The American West needs a new kind of firefighter that fights fires that aren't only wild or urban, but burn in the space between. This was the main finding from a group of researchers who studied the 2012 Waldo Canyon fire, Colorado's second most destructive wildfire and one that has come to epitomize the transformation of wildfires into massive urban disasters.
- PUB DATE: 11/10/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: colorado springs gazette

Jessamine County paramedic John Mackey, who was struck by a car last week, died Monday, and his former supervisors remembered him as a caring professional. "He was a great employee, a dependable employee," said Jerry Domidion, former director of Jessamine County's Emergency Medical Services. "He was fun to be around and he took his job seriously.
- PUB DATE: 11/10/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: lexington hearld-leader