New data released Tuesday by the Seattle Fire Department shows the city’s fire crews responded to 1,538 encampment fires during 2022, averaging 128 a month. The data reflects a slight increase from 2021, when Seattle Fire recorded 1,446 fires at encampments, and 854 in 2020. On Monday, KOMO News reported on an encampment fire in South Lake Union where wooden structures and tents burned.
- PUB DATE: 1/4/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

The safety for the Buffalo Bills, 24-year-old Damar Hamlin, was in critical condition in the ICU at a Cincinnati hospital on Tuesday. The Bills said he went into cardiac arrest after colliding with another player during Monday night's game against the Bengals. As prayers come in from across the nation to Hamlin and his family, doctors here in Seattle shared how something like this can happen.
- PUB DATE: 1/4/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle

Investigators with the Snoqualmie Police Department and the King County Sheriff’s Office are asking the public for help to identify a suspect or suspects wanted in an arson incident at the North Bend Taco Time. At about 4:50 a.m. on Dec. 31, an unknown suspect or suspects broke the drive-thru window of the Taco Time at 726 Southwest Mount Si Boulevard in North Bend.
- PUB DATE: 1/3/2023 6:06:00 PM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle

Walla Walla city fire crews were called to a blaze burning on the second story of a home off 402 Whitman Street early Monday morning. That's near Park Ave just southeast of Downtown Walla Walla. Once firefighters got on scene, they found heavy smoke and flames on the second story of a two-story residential house with flames shooting into the attic.
- PUB DATE: 1/3/2023 11:28:16 AM - SOURCE: KONA-AM 610 Kennewick-Richland-Pasco

With the latest addition of the Tukwila Fire Department, Kent-based Puget Sound Fire keeps getting larger. Tukwila joined the Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority through a interlocal agreement. The contract started Jan. 1, 2023. “Agreeing to a contract for service with the City of Tukwila is a win for both agencies,” said Puget Sound Fire spokesperson Pat Pawlak in a Dec.
- PUB DATE: 1/3/2023 11:14:00 AM - SOURCE: Kent Reporter - Metered Site