Police are investigating a fatal encampment fire Monday night under I-5 in Tacoma. According to investigators, Tacoma firefighters arrived to the scene — at East 27th Street and East Bay Street — to find one person dead from a tent fire. No details have been released about the cause of the fire. The Tacoma Fire Department responded to another encampment fire in the same area in the morning of March 7 near the on-ramp of I-5 from 26th Street.
- PUB DATE: 3/14/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

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The Flint Fire Department requested multiple new fire trucks for the department at last week’s city council meeting, abc12.com reported.

A fire official told the council that the department needed about five to six new trucks. The department sought permission to purchase three trucks: A ladder truck, a heavy rescue truck and a pumper truck, the report said.

The ladder truck would cost just over $1 million while the pumper and heavy rescue would cost about $750,000 apiece. All three trucks are currently available as demonstration or gently used models from Pierce Manufacturing, according to the report.

The fire official said that some existing Flint fire trucks had been driven over 175,000 miles and they are rusting, the report said.

Leaders with Clallam County Fire District 3 have asked consultants to reevaluate design work for a tentative new Dungeness fire station after an initial estimate came in higher than expected. According to district officials at Tuesday’s fire commission meeting, consultant Rice Fergus Miller of Bremerton estimated the cost for fire station 31 at about $5.
- PUB DATE: 3/13/2023 10:30:00 AM - SOURCE: Peninsula Daily News Online - Metered Site

Almost eight years after it was founded, Emergency Service District No. 6 broke ground last week on what will one day be the site of a two-story fire station on SH 36 in Pleak, fbherald.com reported.

The service district was created in 2015 when a majority of Pleak residents voted to impose a tax of .10 cents per $100 of property value to provide funding for the emergency service district, the report said.

Taxes collected over the years have gone to purchase equipment and supplies, according to the report.

Presently, Pleak fire share a small station house owned by the city of Pleak.

The new fire station will be about 13,400 square feet and cost an estimated $3.2 million, the report said. It will have office space for fire and EDS, kitchen, common area, sleeping quarters on the first and second floor and have four bays to hold fire trucks and other equipment.

Construction on the facility itself could start within the next few weeks. Construction is expected to end in the spring of 2024, according to the report.