The Washington Fire Mechanics Board last met in Redmond, Washington on May 14th. The Chiefs are currently awaiting a proposal from the Wenatchee conference center and that will be evaluated. It was decided that our new logo patches and decals will be given away at this year’s conference and additional ones may be purchased...

The 2015 legislative session saw a number of successes for the Washington Fire Chiefs.  From bills that have taken years to pass such as the all-risk fire mobilization funding proposal (HB 1389), to bills that seemed to glide through the process with little-to-no opposition such as the GEMT legislation (HB 2007), 2015 was a banner year for the WFC in Olympia.  The key questions, of course, are why were we so successful in 2015, and more importantly, how do we recreate that success in the coming years?  While it is often difficult to explain why a bill passes one year, especially when it may have failed in others, there are several aspects of legislative success that we can identify that will help instruct our efforts as we move forward.