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

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