PHOTO - A mobile home on Lake Aldwell Road west of Port Angeles caught fire while the occupant was cooking and was completely destroyed late Thursday night. The occupant, Charles Powers, escaped safely but lost everything in the fire at 64 Lake Aldwell Road, which was reported at 10:22 p.m., said Chief Sam Phillips of Clallam County Fire District 2.
- PUB DATE: 11/13/2015 10:46:42 AM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

Even to veteran paramedics like Mike Barokas, who has been on the job 33 years, the scene on the Aurora Bridge was so overwhelming, it seemed unreal. "It was somewhat eerie," said Medic One Lt. Mike Barokas. "It was so surreal it almost felt like a drill." Barokas, along with dozens more firefighters and medics from across the area converged on the carnage September 24 after a Ride The Ducks tour boat crashed into a bus packed with exchange students.
- PUB DATE: 11/13/2015 9:15:24 AM - SOURCE: KREM-TV CBS 2

Even to veteran paramedics like Mike Barokas, who has been on the job 33 years, the scene on the Aurora Bridge was so overwhelming, it seemed unreal. "It was somewhat eerie," said Medic One Lt. Mike Barokas. "It was so surreal it almost felt like a drill." Barokas, along with dozens more firefighters and medics from across the area converged on the carnage September 24 after a Ride The Ducks tour boat crashed into a bus packed with exchange students.
- PUB DATE: 11/13/2015 9:15:24 AM - SOURCE: KREM-TV CBS 2

The family of firefighter Kevin Bell, who died while fighting a house fire last year, will sue the city, claiming among other things that the lieutenant who entered the burning house with him may have left Bell behind to die because of "personal animus" between the two men. At a press conference Thursday in the office of their attorney, Paul Levin, Bell's widow and his brother said they hope the lawsuit will provide answers to why Bell was left behind last October and why no one searched for him for eight minutes even though a "mayday call had been made.
- PUB DATE: 11/13/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: hartford courant

An influential advisory committee backed a proposal Wednesday to streamline Sonoma County’s tangled mix of 40-plus fire agencies and request about $9.5 million in annual funding, ending a 14-month study that explored ways to reshape the county’s complex fire services network. About three dozen fire officials from throughout the county hammered out the final decisions at an almost four-hour meeting that touched on the most sensitive issue — the identity of local fire agencies.
- PUB DATE: 11/13/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: THE PRESS DEMOCRAT