Fire departments have been struggling for years with a growing identity crisis. Many people simply assume that the fire department just puts out fires and doesn’t deal with all of the other emergency events that occur in a community. Lacey Fire District has been particularly hit hard by false stereotypes or identity loss in...
Monthly Archives: May 2009
City District Legal Fight Resolved For Now.
After arbitration hearings on Tuesday and Thursday, the City of Lacey and the Fire District #3 agreed to settle the pending law suit out of court. The long story short is that the Willamette Drive fire station is now reopen with a crew of two people with the City willing to cover overtime when staffing...
Fire Department Reductions Cost Lives.
Recent reductions and closures in Marion Township, Ohio, assisted in the deaths of an infant and a toddler. Considering that Lacey Fire has reorganized and laid members off 3 times since 2002, the similarities should not be lost on us locally.
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/05/10/marion_fire_folo.ART_ART_05-10-09_B1_GUDQJOI.html?sid=101
Lacey Fire Engines Celebrate 20 Years.
In 1989 Thurston County Fire District #3 joined with the City of Lacey and bought a pair of fire engines from Appleton, Wisconsin based Pierce Fire Apparatus. These fire engines were built as heavy duty monsters featuring some of the first disc brakes on fire engines in this county and had silver series 8V92...