A new study found that between 2000 and 2017, the state of Washington experienced 61 FEMA-reported natural disasters. It was a 165 percent increase from the previous two decades from 1980 to 1999, in which 23 natural disasters were reported. The study is courtesy of insurance website QuoteWizard, which analyzed FEMA natural disaster data in the decades spanning 1980 to 2017 and compared each state’s rate of increase.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 4:37:30 PM - SOURCE: KIRO-FM Radio

Lt. Reece Chambers of East Jefferson Fire Rescue has a lot of heart. He’s now on his second one. Chambers, 42, is believed to be the first firefighter in Washington state to return to front-line duty after receiving a heart transplant. He went back on Jan. 2. “New heart, new start,” Chambers said Friday while working at the Chimacum fire station.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 2:59:36 PM - SOURCE: Longview Daily News - Metered Site

A woman found dead in a burning car on Spokane’s south hill was strangled to death and found covered in fire accelerant, according to court documents. Spokane Police have arrested Yasir Darraji and charged him for the murder of his ex-wife Ibithal Darraji. Police and firefighters responded to the car fire on Thursday near Thornton Murphy Park.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 1:56:03 PM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

Three people in two separate vehicles had to be rescued early Monday morning after they tried to drive through floodwaters near Monroe. According to Snohomish Fire District 7, crews responded just before 6 a.m. to reports of two people trapped in a vehicle in the 20900 block of Crescent Lake Road near Monroe.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 12:43:17 PM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13

Lake Wenatchee Fire and Rescue crews, Chelan County Sheriff, Cascade Ambulance and LifeFlight were toned out to rescue an injured snowmobiler on Pole Ridge above Fish Lake on Sunday. “Our fire district happens to have a snowmobiler trailer and Toboggan so we sent a team up to the site where the injured rider was,” said Chief Mick Lamar.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 11:36:43 AM - SOURCE: KPQ-AM 560