Kristen Thorstenson, a community resource specialist at Snohomish County Fire District 1, has been honored with a statewide award for her dedication and hard work in child passenger safety. The Washington Child Passenger Safety Program named Thorstenson as the outstanding child passenger safety technician instructor for 2015.
- PUB DATE: 9/17/2015 1:17:34 PM - SOURCE: Edmonds Beacon

Firefighters are battling a 2-alarm fire at a commercial building in Federal Way Thursday morning. Crews were called to the 31500 block of 20th Avenue South, which is a building that is currently under construction, about 6:30 a.m. The building is a former school administration building, according to South King Fire and Rescue.
- PUB DATE: 9/17/2015 7:37:47 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7

Firefighters are battling a 2-alarm fire at a commercial building in Federal Way Thursday morning. Crews were called to the 31500 block of 20th Avenue South, which is a building that is currently under construction, about 6:30 a.m. The building is a former school administration building, according to South King Fire and Rescue.
- PUB DATE: 9/17/2015 7:37:47 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7

A battalion chief died Wednesday morning after suffering a cardiac arrest. Firefighter Close Calls reported that an ambulance was transporting Batt. Chief Maywood Gaskins, 56, with the Santee Circle (S.C.) Fire Department, after he suffered a cardiac arrest in his home following training at the firehouse.
- PUB DATE: 9/17/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1

Cal Fire Capt. Scott Rohrs and his three crewmen were racing to the scene of the Valley Fire when the foreboding news crackled over radio dispatch: Four elite firefighters had been overrun by flames, suffering serious second-degree burns. The fire was barely an hour old, but driven by fierce winds and the most intense, dry conditions of California's four-year drought, those men had been forced to deploy their silver shelter bags, survival gear of last resort.
- PUB DATE: 9/17/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: san jose mercury news