As a wildfire advanced in August toward homes in the Aeneas Valley, a crew of Forest Service firefighters made their stand on familiar ground — a stretch of Ponderosa pine they had deliberatively burned during cooler spring and fall seasons to clear out undergrowth. In this thinned-out forest, they halted the northern advance of the North Star wildfire, one of the largest blazes of the summer that consumed hundreds of square miles across the state.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2015 2:12:19 PM - SOURCE: Seattle Times

As a wildfire advanced in August toward homes in the Aeneas Valley, a crew of Forest Service firefighters made their stand on familiar ground — a stretch of Ponderosa pine they had deliberatively burned during cooler spring and fall seasons to clear out undergrowth. In this thinned-out forest, they halted the northern advance of the North Star wildfire, one of the largest blazes of the summer that consumed hundreds of square miles across the state.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2015 2:12:19 PM - SOURCE: Seattle Times

Six years after cutting a paid on-call firefighter program, South Whidbey Fire/EMS commissioners this week agreed to bring it back. In a 2-0 vote Thursday, commissioners Kenon Simmons and Mike Helland approved a recommendation to hire eight part-time employees to help improve the district’s day-time emergency response.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2015 6:44:02 AM - SOURCE: South Whidbey Record

Six years after cutting a paid on-call firefighter program, South Whidbey Fire/EMS commissioners this week agreed to bring it back. In a 2-0 vote Thursday, commissioners Kenon Simmons and Mike Helland approved a recommendation to hire eight part-time employees to help improve the district’s day-time emergency response.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2015 6:44:02 AM - SOURCE: South Whidbey Record

Six years after cutting a paid on-call firefighter program, South Whidbey Fire/EMS commissioners this week agreed to bring it back. In a 2-0 vote Thursday, commissioners Kenon Simmons and Mike Helland approved a recommendation to hire eight part-time employees to help improve the district’s day-time emergency response.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2015 6:44:02 AM - SOURCE: South Whidbey Record