Detectives are seeking information from the public related to a homicide and arson investigation after human remains were found in the aftermath of a fire near Auburn last week, according to the King County Sheriff’s Office. On Thursday, Nov. 17 at around 1:30 a.m., deputies and the sheriff’s office’s Fire Investigators Unit responded to a travel trailer that was burning in the 30800 block of Military Road South.
- PUB DATE: 11/23/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle

The Yakima Regional Clean Air Agency has issued a Stage 1 burn ban that began Tuesday at 11 a.m. The ban applies to all of Yakima County and prohibits the use of uncertified wood stoves, inserts and fireplaces. It also prohibits all outdoor burning. The agency says these restrictions may vary on the boundaries of the Yakama Reservation.
- PUB DATE: 11/23/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIMA-TV CW+ 29 Yakima

Dayton backed out of a proposed deal to purchase a former school building in northwest Dayton, which means the city will have find another site for its new joint police and fire station, DaytonDailyNews.com reported.

An inspection of the former school building on Salem Avenue revealed that the building would be very expensive to renovate and retrofit in order to meet the needs of its public safety forces, the report said.

The Dayton Fire Department is analyzing its fire and emergency medical services data to help create a 20-year station relocation master plan, a fire official said, according to the report. The plan is expected to be done by year’s end.

The Dayton Recovery Plan calls for the city to use about $11 million of its $138 million in federal COVID rescue funds to create a new joint police and fire station in northwest Dayton, the report said.

A pothole popped up in the concrete floor of the East Milton fire station recently and it contributed to the Fire Station Building Committee’s unanimous vote on November 9 to take on the construction of East Milton ahead of the reconstruction of Atherton Fire Station, MiltonTimes.com reported.

The pothole, which began as a crack and grew, has been repaired, but a structural engineer told the town that the issue will need to be checked on a regular basis, the report said.

A fire official said that fire personnel at the East Milton station noticed the problem on the left side of the engine bays where Engine 4 is typically parked. 

With work on the new headquarters fire house behind Milton Town Hall well under way, the FSBC is looking ahead to how and when to proceed with the work on the town’s other two fire stations, the report said.

The Calexico Fire Department’s new headquarters is almost finished and no one is more ecstatic about it than Chief Diego Favila, CalexicoChronicle.com reported.

Favila has watched the project’s one-year construction timeframe extend beyond two years, and its initial $5.8 million cost increased to about $8.3 million, the report said.

The fire chief admitted to feeling elated with the city council’s approval of a final $763,000 change order during a special meeting November 17, the report said.

The change order will allow for the installation of a fire alarm system, roofing for the adjoining Police Department building, three fire alerting reset buttons and other items, according to the report.